With its distinctive reddish-brown scaly skin and a tangy, mildly sweet taste, this fruit is not just a treat for the taste ...

Anyone who has spent May in the Northland has noticed that, along with the greening of the flora and the warm temperatures, we experience an influx of myriad insects. With the chill early in the month ...

More exotic-looking is Euphorbia myrsinites, an evergreen perennial with succulent leaves that lends itself easily to rock ...

Leonardo DiCaprio kept a low profile as he took his mom out on Mother's Day. The 11th Hour producer looked lovely in a long ...

I’ve seen this species alive in the wild twice during my own fieldwork,” says Diego Cisneros-Heredia, an ecologist at the San ...

When two employees at the East Bay Vivarium in Berkeley, California, pulled a baby snake from the incubator seven months ago, ...

I've always had a fraught relationship with nature, but until this weekend, I thought nature and I had an understanding.

The timber rattlesnake is critically endangered, both regionally and nationally, after humans hunted them for decades and due to habitat loss. The snakes are incredibly rare in New Hampshire, likely ...

A 55-year-old woman in California has recounted how she spent two days in an ICU after she was bitten by a rattlesnake in her ...

Researchers at the University of Agder (UiA) and Uppsala University are examining hundreds of snakes from museum collections.

A very common sign that the shedding season might be here is when they start rubbing against a rock, tree or similar hard ... shedding the old skin is a sign of a snake's growth in life and ...