Dusk starts to settle across the landscape. The dirt trail, lit by the last licks of sunlight, winds through the trees. The ...

Few creatures fill people with as much as dread and fear as spiders and snakes. In fact, many people develop an extreme, overwhelming fear of spiders (arachnophobia) or snakes (ophidiophobia), and ...

A new study has found that sea snake attacks on humans may be the result of them mistaking humans for a potential mate. Reinhard Dirscherl/ullstein bild via Getty Images They think they’re being ...

Scuba divers have often reported being attacked, unprovoked, by deadly Olive sea snakes. Now, however, scientists suspect these attacks might actually be the creatures' "misdirected" attempts at ...

If you saw a snake in your backyard, would you know if it was venomous? Sure, it's easy to tell a rattler from a rat snake, but other species are harder to identify. To give us some pointers, the ...