Snakes have adapted to climb trees, skate across hot sand, and even swim through water — all without arms or legs. What’s ...

You’d probably call me a poisonous snake, but I’m not really. I’m venomous ma non troppo. I’ve got enough venom for a lizard or a rodent, but not enough to trouble a human, even if one should dare to ...

You might not guess it, but toads are surprisingly adept diggers. Despite their squat, bumpy bodies, toads are surprisingly ...

It should be impossible—water-from-a-stone impossible, faster-than-light-travel impossible—to make a bad movie about scary ...

Nevertheless, nature still has the ability to surprise us. Take the shoebill, for example: a bird so bizarre, it almost ...

The chick marks the third generation of this family line to the Penguins’ Rock gallery. Bigfoot hatched at the Aquarium in ...

A newly discovered species of Ecuadorian frog has a secret weapon: A spine on the side of its thumb. These tree-dwelling amphibians likely use their special digit to puncture the skin of predators ...

An excerpt from ‘Dancing Frogs and Other Creatures in Verse’, by Zai Whitaker.

adding snakes see humans as giant predators. “They’re afraid of you and want to get away.” First, it helps to think about what might attract a copperhead to your yard. Copperheads feed on small ...

Colorado is a popular tourist destination in the central United States. It is home to a wide range of environments, from ...

Snakes often seek shelter in cluttered backyards, drawn to wood piles, leaf debris, and overgrown areas, which provide food ...

Goetze: Our region of the Rolling Plains has been blessed with above-average precipitation during spring and early summer.