A teen held a wild possum up by his neck and brought it into the house to show her parents. The possum did what possums do, ...

Worrying about death is a troublesome consequence of our big brains and active imaginations, a burden that other animals are supposedly spared. But are they? In “Playing Possum: How Animals Understand ...

All plants go through periods of dormancy. Learn how to tell if your plants are going dormant, dying, or dead.

My neighbor found an opossum in his back yard, and his mid-size poodle was barking furiously at it. Instead of getting the poodle into the house, the man got a piece of board and clubbed the opossum ...

Animals across the globe employ a remarkable survival trick called thanatosis, or tonic immobility. This involves feigning ...

Q: We watched an opossum sniffing around our back yard in the afternoon! Is that just uncommon or is it sick, like with rabies? I thought they were night-time animals and never ventured out in ...

In “Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death,” Susana Monsó, a professor of philosophy at the National Distance Education University in Madrid, argues that although humans are unique in our ...