With over 4,000 distinct species of snakes on the planet, it makes sense that some have adapted to overcome their limited mobility compared to their nimble prey, such as rats and rabbits. These ...

IF you ever get bitten by a snake, don’t believe what you see in the movies. Tying a tourniquet, slicing your arm, or trying ...

For a few weeks each year, roughly 2.7 miles of road are shut down in Illinois’s Shawnee National Forest to protect many people’s worst nightmare: thousands of slithering snakes.

Less than a two-hour-drive south of Belleville, you can spot more than 20 species of snakes on a hike shorter than 3 miles. “I don’t think you can do that anywhere else in North America,” Mark ...

A rare two-headed California Kingsnake, born with bicephaly, is thriving at six months old, showcasing the unusual embryonic ...

But other animals also migrate. Among the mammals, several kinds of bats, our only winged mammal, will seek insects farther ...

WOLF LAKE — Less than a two-hour drive south of the St. Louis area, you can spot more than 20 species of snakes on a hike shorter than 3 miles.