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Deep in Southeast Asia’s rainforests blooms a giant flower that smells like rotting flesh. Rare, parasitic and short-lived, Rafflesia arnoldii survives against the odds, but for how long?

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Every spring in Manitoba, up to 100000 red sided garter snakes emerge from underground limestone dens, forming swirling mating balls. Why do they gather here in such astonishing numbers?

In the Everglades, python and gator conflict keeps rising as reproduction, spread, and hidden populations outpace control ...

The South Florida Water Management District started its second year of the python elimination program. One hunter has stood ...

With National Snake Day falling on July 16, we’ve decided to discuss snakes and their wildest yet most unknown abilities.

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Professional python hunter needed his family’s help to wrest the second-heaviest invasive Burmese python on record out of the swamp.

PyPy, an alternative runtime for Python, uses a specially created JIT compiler to yield potentially massive speedups over CPython, the conventional Python runtime. But PyPy’s exemplary performance has ...

Ever sine he welcomed his first child back in 2002, Elon Musk’s kids have been making headlines—and not just for their unusual names. The number of children he’s fathered has also become tabloid ...