An Aussie mom was feeding a possum in her backyard when a giant huntsman spider crept in to join the dinner party. TikTok Coming face-to-face with creepy crawlies the size of dinner plates is just ...

In December 2021, a photograph supposedly showing a man holding a 14-pound possum started making its way around the internet: "Forced perspective" is a term used to describe a sort of optical illusion ...

A tarantula the size of a dinner plate attacked and killed an opossum in a video captured by researchers that looks like a scene from a horror movie. Researchers from the University of Michigan shared ...

A dinner plate-sized tarantula with a big appetite preyed on a young opossum during a recent hunt in the Amazon rainforest — and the horrifying encounter was caught on tape. Biologists at the ...

A University of Michigan-led team of biologists headed into the Amazon rainforest to observe predatory-prey relationships between different types of critters and got more than they bargained for. They ...

The last couple of winters we have had opossums visit our home wildlife feeding station, near Lake Waconia, eating cracked corn and sunflower seeds like the chickadees, juncos and gray and red ...

For the first time, researchers have documented a giant spider eating an opossum in the Amazon rainforest. Writing in the February 28th issue of the journal Amphibian & Reptile Conservation, a team of ...

A chance finding at a Brazilian museum has revealed a brand-new species of opossum. Biologist Silvia Pavan first discovered an unnamed mammal specimen with rich mahogany fur in 2008 at the Museu ...