Raccoons and possums are often confused with one another. After all, they’re both likely to spend some time sifting through your garbage cans, and they are both known for being nocturnal. So, if you ...

Pepé Le Pew, Rascal and Pogo maybe cute characters on the screen, but skunks, raccoons and opossums are a nuisance in the backyard. They can even be dangerous. Classified as vertebrate pests by the UC ...

The supplicants came bearing tithes. Salted cashews, a plastic fruit cup, homemade crafts. The guest of honor, a Virginia opossum named Starfish, sat curled atop a pink fleece bomber jacket, spitting ...

ATLANTA — Georgia's Department of Natural Resources is proposing new rules that would expand the hunting season for raccoons and opossums. The agency is proposing to eliminate the trapping season on ...

After last weekend’s storm, a scrawny raccoon, a hipster skunk and a tubby opossum took a stroll through Hardberger Park West. They stopped as they neared the glow coming from the closes-at-midnight ...

After being rescued and rehabilitated by San Diego Humane Society's Ramona Wildlife Center, more than a dozen small animals were returned to the wild, officials said Monday. Eighteen of the little ...

In all, two raccoons and an opossum were reportedly killed. “While law enforcement tells us the teacher did not do anything illegal, his actions before students are certainly questionable," a rep for ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – A Florida high school agriculture teacher has been accused of drowning wild animals in a trash can as students watched and participated, CBS reports. The animals included a raccoon ...