Florida panthers prey on an assortment of mammals, including opossums. But for one seemingly oblivious opossum recently, it must have been its lucky night. The accompanying footage, credited to Dick ...

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 ...

An injured opossum inadvertently got a woman killed when she risked walking into traffic at night to offer it help, Florida investigators say. The collision happened shortly before 10 p.m. Sunday, Aug ...