DEAR JOAN: I was wondering if you could identify a critter in my yard. Is it a rat or an opossum? I’ve seen rats in our yard before, but none that look like this. It doesn’t run away like a rat would, ...

Re “Fighting Virus Could Let Rats Roam,” Sept. 5: Southern California has an effective, easy and, best of all, free method of rat control available at its disposal right now: the opossum. While some ...

Most of us drop the O in his name and just call this homely guy a possum, but the proper spelling is opossum. He is not a large rat, as he may appear, but rather is the lone North American member of a ...

Opossum oppressed southern Brooklyn continues to blame City Hall for an ill-conceived rat-eradication scheme — but the mayor and even the governor say the whole thing is a figment of a ...

New Zealand's government announced Monday the country's goal to be predator free by 2050. “Rats, possums and stoats kill 25 million of our native birds every year, and prey on other native species ...