During an expedition to the Peruvian Andes in 2018, a team of researchers exploring Abiseo River National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site, made an extraordinary discovery: a previously undocumented ...
Scientists caught a long-tailed mammal with a “facial mask” in a trap at a Peru national park and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Pedro Peloso, shared by Robert Voss In the Andes ...
An intrepid expedition team set off in 2018 to look for a mysterious species of squirrel in the Peruvian Andes. What they found instead was a brand-new species of opossum. “I realized immediately that ...
When Basil the Virginia opossum arrived at the National Zoo over the summer, he had been injured by a predator attack, lost one eye, and was unlikely to survive in the wild due to his injuries. Now, D ...
A North American possum perched on a branch (Cody Pope/Wikipedia) There's a wild opossum in the Homer area, and not everybody is upset about it. Many, including the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, ...
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 ...