Have you seen this video of a hawk crashing a picnic in Australia? The bird picks up a snake and tosses it at some…

Researchers at the MIT Department of engineering wanted to study the best ways to burrow through granular material.…

Meet the Spider-Tailed Horned Viper, a species that lives in western Iran and uses his tail in the shape of a spider…

If Solitaire and Minesweeper have been stripped from all the computers at work but you're still after a discreet way…

Ancient Egyptians didn't prepare only human bodies for the afterlife; cats, baboons, crocodiles, canines, and…

Chris Carlson does great 3D illusion paintings. This stop motion, forced perspective, chalk painting version of the…

Camera traps are just the coolest. In Nicaragua, scientist Miguel Ordeñana uses them to study carnivores, like jaguar…

In case you needed a reminder that Australian animals are terrifying, witness the epic battle between a crocodile…

A snake living near the Cuiabá region of Brazil was recently found with an unusually large distended belly. The…

The king cobra's favorite food is other snakes, and this week-old snake makes its first meal of a water snake that…

Think that a snake can't follow you into the next room because you've shut the door? Think again. Julius, an albino…

The ordered lines of Jerome, Idaho (population: 10,000) start to disintegrate as you approach those parts of town…

This 9.8-foot (3 meters) python flew from Cairns, Australia, to Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, attached to the…

If you had a Nokia cell phone long, long ago—and if you were alive then, you probably did—the best time…

Fear is one of the most universally understood human emotions. Every one of us is familiar with the feelings,…

Sixty million years ago, the world belonged to Titanoboa, a gigantic snake that measured 40 to 50 feet long and…

Venomous vipers like rattlesnakes evolved their deadly toxins incredibly quickly. Scientists had long assumed it was…

This California King Snake amazingly has two rare disorders: it's albino and has two heads. That combination only…

Mobile phones have come a long way. And though you probably haven't been following it quite as closely, so has 3D…

Snakes are a weird evolutionary mystery, and biologists still aren't sure exactly where they came from. Are they the…