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 ...

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 ...

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.

Scientists reconstructed 500 million years of evolutionary history to reveal which came first: colorful signals or the color ...

Dara Ojo is a master of wildlife macrophotography — extreme close-up shots showing little critters in all their odd, ...

Snakes might not top everyone’s list of favorite creatures, but there’s no denying they’ve mastered the art of growing long, ...