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 ...

Advanced video techniques reveal exactly how snake bites work and show various snake species have evolved very different ...

Colubrid snakes, such as the mangrove snake (Boiga dendrophila), which have fangs farther back in their mouths, lunged towards the prey from further away. With their jaws clamped over it, they'd make ...

For more than 60 million years, venomous snakes have slithered across the Earth. These ancient, chemical weapon-wielding ...

The fang blenny (Plagiotremus rhinorhynchos) mimics the appearance and dance of a cleaner wrasse, which tends to be tolerated by larger fish because of its ability to clean parasites off their scales.

Bessie, our adorable black Labrador, died in June 2003. When my beloved brindle lurcher followed suit 18 months later, I was utterly desolate to be dogless for the first time in 35 years ...

Researchers have for the first time closely tracked the fine-scale diving behavior of two species of sea snakes that forage ...

Scientists have discovered a coral mechanism that could help engineers design robots able to adjust their strength and ...

Florida's Everglades is the largest stretch of undeveloped land in the easter U.S., and the area is literally crawling with beasts of all sorts, sizes ...

Our pick of the top Florida state parks to explore for wildlife, springs, and coastal parks, manatees, alligators and more.