While on the hunt for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker in Arkansas, Jorge Ribas encounters all kinds of wildlife, including a particularly venomous critter - the Cottonmouth.
The angle of a surface - not its slipperiness - triggers when geckos turn on their superhero-like ability to walk on walls and ceilings, a new study finds. Jorge Ribas reports.
Jorge Ribas is knee-deep in the Arkansas swamp, looking for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, a bird long considered the Holy Grail of bird watchers and ornithologists.
The University of Minnesota calls their new equine center the "Mayo Clinic" for horses. Kasey-Dee Gardner brings us up to speed on all their new treatments and technology.
Standing water makes a perfect home for mosquitos to breed, and thunderstorms can dump buckets of water in the summer months. Kasey-Dee Gardner finds out if a wet summer will lead to a mosquito boom.
The longer a male Australian redback spider woos the female, the better chance she won't eat him the first time they mate. James Williams explores this tangled web of poisonous spider sex.
On Animal Planet's "What's to Love?," The Sidewinder snakes glides across the hot sand in a sideways motion. When hunting for prey, it borrows itself in the sand and waits for prey to walk by.
The Mekong region in Southeast Asia is home to more than a thousand new plant and animal species, says the World Wildlife Fund. But challenges are ahead in balancing conservation and growth.
Jorge Ribas reports.
On Animal Planet's "Fooled by Nature," rival male diamondback rattlesnakes engage in a combat dance during mating season to win the courtship of a receptive female.
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