When her rescuers found her, they discovered that she had two babies still alive in her pouch. Normally ... She decided to take the orphaned baby opossums at Keeper of the Wild and place them ...

Still little more than squirming, pink embryos, the baby possums clamber upward over their mother’s soft, warm underbelly and into the pouch that opens and closes like an old-fashioned tobacco sack.

Virginia opossums are the only marsupial species in the U.S. "Their little babies live in the mother's pouch until they get big enough, and then they ride on her back," says Mizejewski.

The Virginia opossum is North America’s only marsupial (a mammal that carries its young in a pouch) and is native to the southern U.S. However, it’s been staging an invasion into Canada ...