David is a retired Environmental Scientist with a passion for wildlife photography and travel. He has lived in Shasta County for the last 38 years with his wife Becky. If the light is at all ...

As opossums are nocturnal, it is hard to tell for sure if they are on your property or not. However, you can rely on additional cues to prove an opossum invasion. You can search for their paw prints, ...

On Sunday, March 23rd, Cub Scout Pack 651 of Summit Station celebrated the graduation of three of their 5th-grade Arrow of Light ranked Cub Scouts to Boy Scouts. Lucas Ebling, Nathan Ebling, and Enzo ...

Straight Arrow News is on a mission to raise the bar on journalism in a time of media bias and mistrust. We do it via fact-based reporting and hearing from both sides. Overall, our focus is serving ...

The inferior olive provides the climbing fibers to Purkinje cells in the cerebellar cortex, where they elicit all-or-none complex spikes and control major forms of plasticity. Given their important ...

A woman became a honky-tonk hero when she humanely removed an opossum from Banita Creek Hall in Nacogdoches, Texas One opossum found out the hard way that marsupials and dance halls don't mix.

Have you ever heard the phrase playing possum? This refers to a behavior of opossums (Didelphimorphia), specifically Virginia opossums (Didelphis virginiana), which are also called North American ...

Before primary motor cortex (M1) develops its motor functions, it functions like a somatosensory area. Here, by recording from neurons in the forelimb representation of M1 in postnatal day (P) 8–12 ...