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• n  small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails
• n  nocturnal arboreal marsupial having a naked prehensile tail found from southern North America to northern South America

• Billy is the Hoover opossum.
• The opossum was chosen because it is a unique animal.
• Headmaster Slack was the opossum.

• phalanger
• possum

News & Articles

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• Play dead
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  June 6, 2013 - The Sandusky Register

Quotes

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• Francis Collins in National Institutes of Health (press release)
  The opossum genome occupies a unique position on the tree of life. This analysis fills a crucial gap in our understanding of how mammalian genomes, including our own, have evolved over millions of years,said NHGRI Director Francis S. Collins,...
• Eric Lander in National Geographic
  The opossum is a wonderful comparison to the human,said Eric Lander, director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which led the sequencing project.