This story originally appeared in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When a massive earthquake followed by a tsunami hit Japan a decade ago, the ...

About half of all bird nests don't survive due to predators, particularly in fragmented forest areas, but why? University of Illinois researchers monitored both the prey and predator to find an answer ...

Close-up of a rat snake that measured nearly seven feet in length. To see a video of what the snake did after the picture was taken, visit www.timesleader.com. Rick Koval/For The Times Leader EXETER ...

Here’s a sight you won’t soon forget: you’re walking down a path when you see a massive snake zoom past your feet and slither its way up a tree! That’s exactly what I saw along the Virginia and West ...

A gray rat snake was found hiding inside the toilet of an Alabama property, and the homeowners alerted the police. The incident occurred on Friday in the city of Eufaula, which is located in the ...

In late October, For The Win ran a story about angler Adam Young, who was fishing in Florida when he caught a largemouth bass on—of all things—hotdogs and bread. The fish only measured 16 inches, but ...

A Flushing, Ohio, woman got an unpleasant surprise when she walked into her laundry room on Saturday. No, it wasn't that the machines were broken down or already being used—it was a large rat snake ...

The local police were called to remove it, and they later identified it to be a Western rat snake. Western rat snakes are non-venomous, and kill their prey by constriction. On Sunday, a woman was ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - It’s not often that a 911 caller tips a Northeast Ohio police department that a diamondback rattlesnake was in the middle of Lorain Road. But that’s the call North Ridgeville ...

On May 21, a woman in Oklahoma was driving when a 4-foot rat snake crawled onto her windshield. The local police were called to remove it, and they later identified it to be a Western rat snake.