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, "playing possum," meaning pretending to be dead. It is a natural defense ...

If you're a regular reader, you know that our dog Charlie has been in a years-long feud with a possum that often sits on top of our back fence.

Don’t attempt to feed it, keep your garbage bins tightly shut, and don’t allow your dog out unsupervised. Opossums aren’t ...

DEAR JOAN: We have an opossum living at the base of a shrub in our side yard. We generally don’t go near there, only when we ...

The motivation behind everything that animals do is to stay alive, at least until they have produced offspring. Any species ...

The longtime Epstein associate reveled in her privileges after the Trump administration moved her to more comfortable ...

Cybersecurity training programs have become a near-universal fixture of corporate risk management. While regulatory and insurance requirements drive their adoption, they seldom align with educational ...

Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa. After archaeologists uncovered his fossilized bones in 1960, they used ...

Advocating for the rights of people forced to flee and those denied a nationality. Citizens normally look to their own governments to guarantee their human rights and physical security. When people ...

Separate bear attacks in Japan killed one and injured four on Friday, officials said, days after the government vowed to toughen measures because of a record year of deadly assaults by the animals.

After four coyote attacks within a month in Bergen County, a handful of residents near the area where three of the attacks occurred said they are not too concerned for their safety. “I’m more ...