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Awesome Possums

  • March 18, 2013
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Possums may look like rodents, but they are marsupials that carry their young in pouches, like kangaroos. They have 50 teeth, the most of any North American land mammal, and are also the only non-primates with opposable thumbs — on their hind feet, to help them climb.

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