Grubby, the female opossum that hitched a ride to Alaska on a shipping container two years ago — spurring a manhunt, memes and a frenzy in a small coastal town — has died, the Alaska Zoo said Tuesday.

Grubby, aka Ophelia, sitting in her enclosure at the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage. The zoo took the stowaway in after she arrived from Washington state in 2023. Grubby, an iconic opossum who hitchhiked to ...

Opossums are cat-sized marsupials known to “play dead” when threatened, the Florida fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says. This is not the opossum involved in the fatal crash. Karen ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Shawnee police officer helped rescue a opossum that got trapped in a fireplace. On Monday, the police department posted on Facebook that Officer Satterfield rescued the wild ...

Sept. 18 (UPI) --A police officer was called to a Kansas home to evict an unusual trespasser -- an opossum trapped inside the house's fireplace. The Shawnee Police Department said on social media that ...

Oliver came to the WCV in April 2022. Courtesy of Wildlife Center of Virginia. The Wildlife Center of Virginia made the difficult decision Saturday to euthanize an animal ambassador for several health ...