From romantic inscriptions to gemstones steeped in sentimental history, these 12 royal engagement rings all have a hidden detail ...

A behind the scenes look at safely preparing and sending out snakes to their new homes.

The jackalope is mythical, but Wyoming was home to an actual prehistoric rodent with two large horns on its head. The Ceratogaulus is one of the ...

Snakes have both fascinated and scared humans for as long as we can remember. Especially frightening are the giants that ...

Today we’re walking through the snakes at the Reptarium, starting with some of the least expensive species and ending with the most valuable ones in the collection. From normal ball pythons that can ...

Ancestral threats like snakes and heights trigger more intense physiological fear responses (sweating) than modern threats like firearms and disease.

Filmmaker and actor Werner Herzog has spent much of the last decade as a pop-cultural eminence, even as most of his own films have flown under the radar as the province of film geeks and already ...

Baby rattlesnake bites are less dangerous than bites from adult rattlesnakes, according to a new study from Loma Linda ...

Erdrich’s new collection of stories, written over 20 years, testifies to the intrepidity of her explorations and her ...

A road FULL of snakes?!  Illinois actually shuts this one down twice a year… and people travel from all over to see it. Would you go?

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says it confiscated 39 live python snakes hidden in a vehicle attempting to cross into Mexico from Laredo, Texas.

A single vertebra pulled from ancient sediments in southwest Taiwan has upended what scientists thought they knew about the island’s prehistoric ecosystem. The bone belongs to a giant python that ...