Playing dead isn't the ultimate ghosting technique. Frogs use "tonic immobility" as a strategy to stay alive during mating ...

Female frogs will take extreme measures to escape unwanted attention from their male counterparts, a new study found. During the European common frog’s scramble to breed — a potentially deadly process ...

The Virginia Opossum (Didelphis virginiana) is well known for its ability to play dead when under threat from a predator. It's such an iconic scene that anyone or anything feigning death can be said ...

BERLIN - Some female frogs may fake their own deaths in an effort to avoid unwanted male advances during mating season, according to researchers behind a newly-published study. Female European common ...

New findings suggest that female European common frogs "may not be as passive and helpless as previously thought" Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...