UNION COUNTY, Illinois — Around 35 species of snakes have shut down nearly three miles of a southern Illinois road to vehicles as their bi-annual migration peaks. Thousands of snakes, as well as other ...

A woman who went missing in China was found inside a well with water snakes over two days later, South China Morning Post reported. Qin survived inside the well for 54 hours, battling exhaustion, ...

The researchers still aren't sure whether snakes evolved from species like B. elgolensis or whether snakes independently evolved similar mouth parts. It's also possible that B. elgolensis is a stem ...

The Conservancy of Southwest Florida has removed 20 tons of Burmese pythons from the western Everglades since 2013. The invasive pythons have decimated native wildlife, with at least 85 species ...

Breugnathair elgolensis — a species of hook-toothed lizard that lived during the Middle Jurassic, about 167 million years ago — displays a mosaic of anatomical traits that is not present in living ...

October is beginning, and lots of happenings are planned in the Columbia area. Several events are taking on autumn-centric themes, though there are plenty without this focus. Event listings include ...

The captured snake, named Kevin, has already found a rescue placement Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023 and interned with the brand in 2022. Her ...

In a wildlife sanctuary and national park in Bangladesh, two tree species were recorded for the first time. Getty Images/iStock Photo When searching through the forest for new and unique critters, ...

Let me start this out with saying that I am not a huge fan of snakes. They slither and creep me out comepletely. tt's just the slimy way that they move and they are sneaky. Sneaky snake. Isn't that a ...

Meet Tim Friede, a man who spent nearly two decades deliberately exposing himself to snake venom. Enduring hundreds of bites and carefully measured injections allowed him to build an unusual immune ...