They say everything's bigger in Texas. And that appears to be true, at least in the case of a group of ancient ...

Paleontologists at the University of Kansas have discovered a new "big possum" species that lived in the warm, tropical and ...

In the Andes Mountains of northern Peru, a long-tailed mammal with a “facial mask” moved through the undergrowth. Suddenly, the ground dropped out underneath its hairy paws, and it fell into a ...

The male opossum weighed about six pounds and was euthanized to be tested for rabies, officials said. An opossum trapped at a big box store in Iwilei in mid-December met a similar fate.

Paleontologists at the University of Kansas have discovered a new “big possum” species that lived in the warm, tropical and vegetation-filled ecosystem of far west Texas 60 million years ago.