Possums have an unusual skill that helps protect them in the wild. Read all about what really happens when a possum plays ...

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, ...

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 ...

The Holy Spirit always surprises us. That is because the Spirit is like a possum. He plays dead until he is not. I began this month’s Theology on Tap as I always do. I took a sip of my gin and tonic ...

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 ...

Animals across the globe employ a remarkable survival trick called thanatosis, or tonic immobility. This involves feigning death to escape predators. However, some species also use this ability to ...