Contrary to popular belief, water moccasins and cottonmouth snakes are the same snakes. Both terms refer to the same species, Agkistrodon piscivorus, a venomous water snake in North America. Read on ...

No list of celebrity pets is complete without Bubbles, the most famous chimpanzee in history. Born in 1983 and adopted by Michael Jackson as an infant, Bubbles became the ultimate symbol of 1980s ...

However absurd and horrifying it may sound, in the wild, some animals actually eat parts of their own bodies. Sometimes it’s ...

A live snake will be used to train dogs to avoid the deadly reptiles after a summer that saw a number of pets on the Mid-North Coast struck and killed.

The opening of the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in 1923 has been followed by a trail of death and misfortune, with those who ...