Opossum trashing through the snow Christmas sweater

Opossums originally hailed from South America. Worldwide, there are 103 species and 19 genera but for us in the United States, we have just one called the Virginia opossum. We have affectionately referred to the opossum as a possum for so many centuries. I don’t want to be the one who changes that. Science tells us that these critters have inhabited the earth, in one form or another, for almost 23 million years.