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, ...

It's an emergency room, but there are no bleached white sheets or injured people fighting for their lives. Instead, tiny beds are equipped with cavelike boxes and patients prefer to play dead. It is a ...

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 ...

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 ...

It struck me the other day that if I had a place in the animal kingdom it would be as an opossum -- not because of its rat-like appearance but because of its ability to play dead under stress. The ...

Former NFL star receiver Chad Johnson is convinced the team is “playing possum” as it stumbled to the finish line ahead of the NFL playoffs. The Eagles lost five of their final six games, including ...

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 ...

German-born Psychiatrist Hans Lowenbach of Duke University was puzzled for a moment when a colleague complained that one of his patients was “playing possum.” Turning the colloquialism over in his ...