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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NORTH STONINGTON, Conn. (WTNH) – News 8 viewer Antel Brel captured a video of a snake slithering across a golf course in North Stonington. Herpetologist Sara Horwitz said the creature seen in the ...

An adult eastern rat snake that made its home inside a breaker box at an intersection in Prince William County, Virginia, was removed after it inadvertently turned off traffic signals. A call was put ...