A few days ago, I was walking along Fernwood Road in Bethesda, in a neighborhood full of office buildings and parking lots. It was not a setting where you'd expect to see animals, except as hood ...

Chances are, you’ve seen an opossum — known by many as a “possum” — in the headlights of your car or at the edge of your yard, startled by the motion-activated floodlight on your back porch. Maybe it ...

Move over, Punxsutawney Phil. Sand Mountain Sam is the Gadsden area's possum prognosticator.

In “Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death,” Susana Monsó, a professor of philosophy at the National Distance Education University in Madrid, argues that although humans are unique in our ...

Q: We watched an opossum sniffing around our back yard in the afternoon! Is that just uncommon or is it sick, like with rabies? I thought they were night-time animals and never ventured out in ...

Editor’s note: This short feature is one of several brief looks at local professional collaborations included in Xpress‘ Business-to-Business Issue. With flyaway fur and a scrunched-up snout, the ...

Okay, maybe just one more bite: In a move that most people only make in the dark hours when everyone in the house is asleep, one shameless opossum found a slice of heaven when she ate an entire Costco ...