This adorable baby opossum named Ellie will melt your heart. Baby Opposums are some of the most joy-sparking little critters I've seen. Known as joeys, these tiny marsupials are full of surprises from ...

As with other marsupial species, possums raise their very underdeveloped young in specialized pouches on their abdomens. They are born and transferred to the pouch after only 16–18 days of ...

Two of the six sugar glider possums found dumped in a box outside a Lidl supermarket have babies in their pouches, health checks have revealed. Sugar gliders - which have a thin membrane of skin ...

How old do you think this baby is? Fun fact: When possums are born, they remain in their mother’s pouch for about two-and-a-half months. At around 55 to 70 days, their eyes finally open.

When fully developed, they emerge from the pouch but remain with their mother until they are 4 months old. Baby possums sometimes ride on their mother’s back, clinging to her fur. The young are ...

I was really just calling for concern [to see] if babies were in [the animal's] pouch," Ingram said. Ingram said her friend told her she'd be able to pull the opossum from the tree — but it ...

while the Virginia opossum is found in northern areas. Both species are marsupials, meaning they carry their young in pouches. The common opossum has a long, hairless prehensile tail, a pointed ...

Like other marsupials (e.g. kangaroos, wombats and koalas) opossums carry their offspring in a pouch. When a baby opossum gets too big for the pouch, it will ride on the back of its mother until ...

The opossum is North America's only marsupial. It has a prehensile tail, which makes it easy to climb, and the female carries the young in a pouch on her abdomen like a kangaroo. The natural ...