The plant is indeed the Calabash Tree (Crescentia cujete). Its fruit are inedible. When dried, the mature fruit’s hard shells can be made into musical instruments and other receptacles. The tree is ...

In the mountains of eastern Iraq, a hunter stumbled upon a black-tongued predator. Instead of killing the dangerous animal, ...

This was the moment an unusually large venomous red-bellied black snake was captured inside a work shed at a home. Daniel May ...

Here's a closer look at today's featured venomous snake: ...