Many animals survive predation by running, fighting, or hiding. However, some take a much stranger approach: they play dead.

Since its discovery in the 1990s, a contagious cancer called devil facial tumor disease has wiped out 85 percent of the Tasmanian devils on the Australian island of Tasmania. The animals have yet to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Possums can be the subject of cute fascination, morbid curiosity (quite literally, these creatures play dead as a defense ...

Wildlife researchers studying mammals in Key Largo have discovered a potentially groundbreaking — if not heartbreaking — way to locate and kill invasive Burmese pythons, especially the big ones. A ...

Regular readers of this column may remember that I found a baby opossum about a year ago, and turned him over to a wildlife rehabilitation person. Now a little more than a year later, it is time to ...