Mammals, you may recall, are often categorized into two groups: the
Prototheria (monotremes like
this one) and
Theria (live bearing mammals). Within the Theria, there are the marsupials and placentals - the former being woefully neglected so far on this blog! So to give the marsupials a bit more coverage, I present you with everyone's favorite (and least favorite) North American marsupial, the largest (and the smallest) marsupial north of Mexico, the one, the only... Virginia Opossum (
Didelphis virginiana).
You can learn more about these cool critters
here, via the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
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