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 ...

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 ...

A few days ago, I was walking along Fernwood Road in Bethesda, in a neighborhood full of office buildings and parking lots. It was not a setting where you'd expect to see animals, except as hood ...

Democratic strategist James Carville suggested the tide is turning in the country and advised Democrats to “play possum” while it does. Carville appeared on MSNBC’s “The Beat with Ari Melber” where ...

If anyone should know about playing possum and the art of the ambush in the Red River Shootout, it's Texas. AUSTIN, Texas — You know college football is in full whack-a-doodle mode when ESPN College ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: This short feature is one of several brief looks at local professional collaborations included in Xpress‘ Business-to-Business Issue. With flyaway fur and a scrunched-up snout, the ...