If you're racing down a country road, trying to push your motorcycle to its top speed, the last thing in the world you want to see on your dashboard is a snake. But that's what happened to this Brazilian biker, who was keeping one eye on the road and another on the speedometer, when a [...]

Tired of those "[monkey-fighting] snakes on those [Monday-to-Friday] planes" -- as seen in edited-for-television versions of Hollywood B-films involving snakes, a plane, and Samuel L. Jackson? Well, here's news of one more snake, for life has imitated art yet again: this week, a real snake surfaced...

Variety is the spice of life and animals know it pays to be flexible.

Big parks may look good on a map, but they often do little to preserve nature's rich diversity of trees, birds, mammals, and other creatures.

What's driven vipers to evolve a deadly venom? A need to defend themselves against opossums.

Remains of the two huge beasts were found in the same coal mine.

Floods in Australia have unleashed a "plague" of mice, spiders, snakes and crocodiles.

When falling from forested canopy, these ants can zip themselves out of a free fall and back into the safety of the treetops.