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 ...

The back door of the world” By Krista Madsen In my recent essay on a low brow/high brow photographic stunt known ...

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 ...

Philosopher Susana Monsó's book Playing Possum, newly translated into English next month, makes the strong case that many animals big and small understand the concept of death. Reading time: Reading ...

At the end of the first quarter of Texas Tech’s Battle for the Saddle game against Texas Christian University, a possum ran across the artificial turf before being dragged off and safely released, ...

I met him about two months ago. It could be longer. You know how time has a way of slipping away without notice. You think something happened a week ago but when you check the calendar you realize ...