Snakes may be feared, but many animals hunt them. Explore how predators adapt to venom, speed, and defense to shape ...

The king cobra is the world’s longest venomous snake, sometimes reaching 18 feet, but it’s surprisingly light, usually around 13 pounds. Its strength lies in its venom and reach, not bulk. The honey ...

The yellow-bellied slider is a semiaquatic turtle, native to southeastern United States, where it is the most common turtle species. As the name suggests, they have a yellow belly that is buried under ...

A singer's tragic death highlights Nigeria's snakebite problem, a national crisis compounded by a critical shortage of antivenom and political inaction.

Blind snakes stood out as the only major group with no recorded cases of cannibalism. This may be because they never evolved the highly flexible lower jaws seen in other snakes, which allow them to ...

Don’t worry if you don’t have a personal geomancer on your phone — we’ve done the cosmic legwork for you, rounding up this year’s Chinese zodiac fortune guide with the help of a seasoned master.

The dangers in al-Taawun are not just biological. Rizq Abu Laila, displaced from the town of Beit Lahiya in the north, lives ...

A 37-year-old man has been arrested for planting a live snake inside the toilet of a coach of a Mumbai-Solapur train on December 27, 2025. The man has confessed to the crime and said he had done it to ...

Blind and mostly hairless, with front teeth that put beavers to shame, the naked mole-rat is one of the most unusual-looking rodents you could ever see. However, you probably won’t see one, since ...

A python hunter captured a nearly 17-foot, 202-pound snake in the Florida Everglades. While it is legal to eat python meat in Florida, health officials strongly advise against it. Testing has revealed ...

Snakes may well be one of nature's greatest predators, capable of eating whole deer or even crocodiles, but just as impressive is that they can go months, or even a whole year, without a single meal.