Mothers have the hardest job in the world. Caring for babies is full-time work, and this labor extends to the animal world. In this Instagram video, a mother possum is seen carrying upwards of a dozen ...

My crippling fear of opossums goes back to around the third grade. One late summer night, one of those rat-faced marsupials was “playing possum” under my family’s backyard rose bush, slumped in a ...