The Virginia opossum (Didel-phis virginiana), a marsupial, is native to North America and is often considered to be untamable. There are local instances of young opossums being raised as pets ...

A blanket of snow isn’t enough to keep a hungry fox from a hot meal. In wintry landscapes, mice and other rodents find refuge in tunnels beneath the snow’s surface. But a wily fox will tilt ...

16 when the Starship upper stage was apparently lost while ascending into space. The vehicle lifted off from SpaceX’s Starbase test site at Boca Chica, Texas, at 5:37 p.m. Eastern. The Super ...

Flight 7 was supposed to feature something new for Ship as well: About 17.5 minutes after liftoff, the upper stage was to deploy 10 mock satellites similar in size and weight to the next-gen ...

The team analyzed the shape of 113 skulls and 387 jaws, measuring their likely bite force. The Formby skulls were flatter than skulls from Scotland, and their jaws had muscle attachments closer to ...

A tribe refused to take back a series of ‘cursed’ skulls (Picture: Missiemuseum) A tribe in Papua New Guinea has refused to accept a series of ‘cursed’ ritual skulls made by cannibal ...

The well-preserved skull belongs to a never-before-seen species of sauropodomorph that potentially grew up to 33 feet long. An enormous, extremely well preserved dinosaur skull unearthed in China ...

A huge dinosaur skull found in southern China appears to belong to an entirely new species, according to a group of paleontologists that studied the specimen. Paleontologists found the fossilized ...

HUNTINGDON COUNTY, Pa (WJAC) — Police say an Alexandria woman is facing animal cruelty charges after killing a possum with a kitchen knife Wednesday afternoon in Huntingdon County. According to ...

Delhi Customs/X A man was arrested by authorities at an airport in India after he was caught trying to bring a baby crocodile skull on his flight. Delhi Customs said in a statement on X that the ...

Video / Ben Cummins A skull found in the sand on a Kāpiti Coast beach likely belonged to a young woman struck by a musket ball, according to an analysis by several specialists. The discovery of ...

A heap of skulls found in the center of a prehistoric village has revealed evidence of an unusual ritual tradition associated with the dead that appears to have been practiced for centuries ...