A Virginia opossum mother carries her young on her back on a forest floor in spring. This week on Discover Nature, we take a look at Missouri’s cousin to the kangaroo. The Didelphis virginiana, or the ...

Two wombs, a forked penis, and giving birth through the nose. These are just a few of the bizarre stories circulating about the reproductive biology of the Virginia opossum. This beady-eyed, big-eared ...

The SPCA Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center is asking for the public’s help in saving orphaned opossum babies across Monterey County. Every spring, typically between February and June, female ...

Just to be clear, female opossums do not give birth by sneezing babies into their pouch from their nostrils, as was once widely believed. If anything, it’s more bizarre than that. Ah, the poor ...