A spider with extraordinary genitalia, a carnivorous caterpillar that wears its prey's body parts, and a tiny opossum are ...

During an expedition to the Peruvian Andes in 2018, a team of researchers exploring Abiseo River National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site, made an extraordinary discovery: a previously undocumented ...

OSHKOSH, Wis. (WBAY) - It’s been twenty years since University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh biology professor Greg Adler caught a mysterious mouse opossum in the jungle of Panama, but he still remembers it ...

Scientists caught a long-tailed mammal with a “facial mask” in a trap at a Peru national park and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Pedro Peloso, shared by Robert Voss In the Andes ...

An intrepid expedition team set off in 2018 to look for a mysterious species of squirrel in the Peruvian Andes. What they found instead was a brand-new species of opossum. “I realized immediately that ...

University of Wisconsin Oshkosh biology professor Greg Adler’s legacy solidified this week as a new species of opossum he collected a decade ago was described in an American Museum of Natural History ...

“Opossums are known for feigning death, or pretending to be dead, whenever they feel threatened or scared. This behavior is ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — An opossum discovered Tuesday in a shipping container was the second live opossum in a month found in Hawaii, raising the concerns about the growing threat of invasive species in ...