There are many purposes that spots and stripes serve in nature, but how they form has been more of a mystery to scientists.

As with coyotes, which have moved into suburban areas in Florida in recent years, pythons can prey on invasive Muscovy ducks, ...

It's well known that deadly snakes strike very swiftly, and it is easy to infer that if you’re unlucky enough to be bitten, the moment of contact will be as simple as it is sudden: a lightning-quick ...

The Savannah River stretches 301 miles along the border of South Carolina and Georgia. It begins at Lake Hartwell in the ...

On a farm in southern India, agricultural workers dug into the damp soil and uncovered a 1-foot-long creature with “distinct” eyes. Something about the “lustrous” animal caught the attention of nearby ...

With stunning mountain ranges, flat coastal plains, and the rolling fields of the Piedmont plateau region, North Carolina has a vast array of habitats that are home to thousands of different animals.

Six venomous snake species reside in Mississippi, including the copperhead, cottonmouth, eastern diamondback rattlesnake, pygmy rattlesnake, timber rattlesnake, and coral snake. The eastern ...

The rattlesnakes in South Carolina are the eastern diamondback, timber and pigmy rattlesnakes. Josh Bell [email protected] Soon it will be that loving season for South Carolina’s elusive eastern ...

A familiar rattlesnake slithered into a biologist’s campsite near a ghost town in Arizona. Turns out, the biologist moved the same rattlesnake out of the same camp four years earlier, the Arizona Game ...

A diamondback rattlesnake was relaxing comfortably one early morning recently when a bobcat happened by and took notice. A trail camera, set up behind a resident’s fence in the small residential ...