But off the coast of Baja California, a group of orcas has adopted a brutal way of hunting sunfish: With an unusual maneuver, ...

On Tuesday, July 21, a Michigan resident was hospitalized from a venomous snakebite. Here's how to identify the eastern massasauga rattlesnake.

Snakes first appeared during the age of dinosaurs, but fossils of many early species are so fragmentary that scientists have had difficulty deciphering their evolution ​as a group. Now, a ...

In cloned populations of a newly described single-celled protist, a few cells undergo a voracious transformation. They metamorphose into much larger “supergiants” that shift their shape, alter their ...

In Homer’s epic, Odysseus’s men eat something so powerful that they forget about home. Which plants could have produced such ...

The findings in the study highlight the ecological threat posed by Burmese pythons in Florida, where the invasive snakes have ...

This snake’s toxic bite causes paralysis, which keeps its strong and speedy eel prey from escaping. Yellow-lipped sea kraits, ...