"Rat snakes are good at climbing up the sides of trees and things like that where there’s irregularities that they can catch ...

More than a decade after discovering a snake on a Peruvian mountain top, Robert W. Harrington Endowed Professor of Biology ...

The Brazos water snake, Nerodia harteri, is endemic to a single location in the United States. It thrives in the Brazos River ...

The plant is indeed the Calabash Tree (Crescentia cujete). Its fruit are inedible. When dried, the mature fruit’s hard shells can be made into musical instruments and other receptacles. The tree is ...

Many fans sailed on Hallmark’s inaugural Christmas cruises — now it’s a docuseries! Christmas at Sea premieres July 7 with ...

The accidental introduction of the brown tree snake (Boiga irregularis) to Guam post-World War II led to the decimation of ...

Guam is a territory of the United States in the western Pacific Ocean, and has served as a strategic military outpost since ...

Arkansas is home to 39 species of snakes, and six of them are venomous. Thankfully, not all of these venomous snakes inhabit ...

If you’re going swimming in any of Mississippi’s lakes or rivers, you may have a few uninvited guests. Find out which lakes & ...

I recommend shying away from garden clean-up regardless of timing because of the benefits that retaining leaf litter and ...

“Terrestrial snakes primarily live and hunt on the ground e.g. red-bellied black snakes, marsh snakes. They will usually ...

I’ve seen this species alive in the wild twice during my own fieldwork,” says Diego Cisneros-Heredia, an ecologist at the San Francisco University of Quito in Ecuador. “It’s almost invisible because ...