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 ...

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

Snakes live almost everywhere on Earth, except the polar regions, where it’s too cold for these cold-blooded animals. Snakes ...

The well-known copperhead is often mistaken for lesser-known species of nonvenomous snakes. One common snake that is ...

There are a number of snake species you might encounter in the Ohio River, depending on where you are exploring.

Arkansas is home to 39 species of snakes, and six of them are venomous. Thankfully, not all of these venomous snakes inhabit ...