During a collection at the Australian Reptile Park, Tony the Tiger snake produced an astonishing 123 milligrams of venom. This is over double the average venom yield for the species, highlighting its ...

The city's notorious oversized rats usually found gorging on piles of garbage are noticeably less active as the. mercury ...

Historically, Snake Years have been good for the arts, yielding massive, epoch-defining works of culture. Case in point: The ...

Visitors to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden are lining up to see — and smell — a rare bloom at that has the scent of a rotting corpse.

The humble caterpillar boasts some venomous species. While many are harmless, a few carry venoms potent enough to permanently ...

The deadly caterpillars – within the South American genus called Lonomia – have a snakelike venom that interferes with blood ...

An artist has recreated 170,000 Leicestershire people in clay form to mark the peak of the world human population. Julian ...

In response, God instructed Moses to make a serpent out of bronze and mount it on a pole. Anyone who had been bitten could look at the bronze serpent and would be healed. "The brazen serpent", with ...