Chen Yuanhui has spent more than four decades studying one of China’s rarest venomous snakes, even though his work has cost ...

Eastern indigo snake can grow to 9 feet, is nicknamed 'Emperor of the Forest,' and is native to Georgia. Where? How many are ...

After an IUCN listing, black-market prices for the viper soared past US$150,000 each, but Chen refused all offers to sell ...

The ninth snake bite was particularly severe for the 77-year-old because instead of immediately administering first aid, he ...

Copperheads and cottonmouths are both venomous snakes found in Georgia, but key differences in appearance and habitat can ...

Achievements that first make people laugh and then make them think. That’s the motto of the Ig Nobel Prizes, an annual competition that—parodying the Nobel Prizes—recognizes some of the world’s most ...

On a tiny island in Lake Victoria, a community of fishermen lives side by side with nearly a thousand deadly cobras, yet no ...

Scientists expected the creature only lived in cold water, before recently discovering the fanged fish in warm tropical ...

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Amid the calendars, flyers and other back-to-school ephemera that fill students’ backpacks, Catholic school families in the ...

In 1972, a strange package arrived from the wilds of Queensland: just a severed snake head: no body, no explanation, just a ...