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Opposable thumbs: Primates, opossums, koalas, giant pandas and chameleons Opposable ... It looks like they likely nearly wiped them out.’ 8. Meat-eating plants: Fly traps and pitcher plants Pitcher ...

A real estate agent in Omaha, Nebraska, recently got an unexpected houseguest – a hungry opossum who ate the entire tuxedo chocolate mousse cake she recently bought from Costco. Kim Doggett ...

An opossum with a sweet tooth was hospitalized after it annihilated an entire Costco chocolate mousse cake that was left outside on the porch of a Nebraska real estate agent’s home this week.