Hungry snake caught swallowing another, even bigger snake headfirst. Many species of snakes are capable of swallowing prey ...

Coming face-to-face with a large snake is enough to make most people freeze. In this short video circulating online, however, two boys do the opposite — stepping in when they see a large python ...

Often dismissed as pests, opossums are among the most misunderstood mammals in North America. When threatened, they don’t choose to “play dead” — they involuntarily enter a stress-induced comatose ...

Brown tree snakes, which are invasive in Guam, have caused local extinctions of bird and bat species. Eradication efforts are ...

The complex biology of ghrelin, the hunger hormone, has researchers wondering how its absence helps snakes last a long time with no food, if at all.

Colorado has had to find the perfect balance between wild animals and humans, but sometimes the worlds collide, and the consequences can be deadly — so, what is Colorado's deadliest animal?

Contrary to popular belief, water moccasins and cottonmouth snakes are the same snakes. Both terms refer to the same species, ...

Tuesday, Feb. 17, marks the beginning of the lunar new year, sometimes called Chinese New Year.

We in the South love our animals. Many of us come from agricultural backgrounds , where animals were raised for provision and ...

Lunar New Year is a holiday that celebrates prosperity, luck, and family unity. The images that come to mind are red ...

Tackling the tension between promoting conservation, keeping animals in captivity and its heavy history, the zoo has been reshaped around environmental awareness ...

70 — Five-year survival rate across all cancers. (The rate applies to the percentage of people who are alive five years after initial diagnosis or start of treatment for a disease. In 1971 when the ...