When it feels threatened, the cat-sized black and white creature will keel over and fall to the ground, catatonic. With globs of saliva dripping from an open mouth, lifeless eyes stare into the abyss.

You can learn a lot about people and the times they lived in by looking at what they ate. That includes presidents.

A Brisbane concrete pourer has been warned after footage circulated of him deliberately shaking a native ringtail possum off a pouring boom to fall about 30 metres to the ground. The footage, posted ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

For years, the cultivated meat industry has struggled to emerge as a practical alternative to the brutal factory farming sector. The key reason? Perhaps not that lab grown meat isn’t a viable product, ...

Sand Mountain Sam, a possum, will predict an early spring or six more weeks of winter on February 2. The Possum Day event will feature a convoy and bluegrass entertainment. Opossums are North ...

Extreme heat is forcing Western Australia's critically endangered western ringtail possum (Ngwayir) to cut back on vital activity and feeding, new research shows. The study, a collaboration between ...

Longevity pioneers like Bryan Johnson are going to extreme lengths in the quest for immortality, but for those of us who hope to reach 100 with less commitment, dietary tweaks are typically the first ...

Like a lot of deer hunters, Seth Sorrell, of Shoals, Indiana, runs multiple trail cameras on the property he hunts. And over the last four years, Sorrell has captured hundreds of trail cam pictures of ...

Georgia’s small city of Tallapoosa has earned national attention after USA TODAY’s Readers’ Choice Awards 2025 ranked its Possum Drop as the third-best New Year’s Eve drop in the country. The event, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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, ...

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 ...