Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Simon in 1976, a year after she caused a stir with the cover of her album ‘Playing Possum’ - Credit: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty ...

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 ...

This image was taken during the day (the Virginia opossum is mostly nocturnal). The mother is carrying nine young on her back. New Hampshire has an official state marsupial: the Virginia opossum. That ...

Almost 25 years before Sabrina Carpenter was born, Carly Simon was in a department store in New York and feeling pretty good. She’d just released her fifth album, Playing Possum, and the frisky single ...