Like many pet stories, this one started with a child’s request. My 11-year-old had been asking for a pet snake for months, ...

At first glance, this snake looks completely ordinary—but hidden beneath its scales is one of the strangest biological secrets ever discovered. Unlike almost every other snake on Earth, the red-necked ...

Crayfish and amphibians are vanishing as a stealth invader spreads statewide, raising alarms about cascading losses across ...

Giving voters tons of options and preventing actual fraud means slow counts and shifting results. But it feeds MAGA ...

Mail-in ballots are more work to count than in-person votes thanks to a mix of logistical steps and state law.

South Africa’s landscapes carry a quiet tension that rarely makes itself obvious at first glance. Grasslands that look open ...

In the heart of the Smokies, Gatlinburg, TN, has always appealed to nature lovers and adventure seekers, but now it’s giving ...

Deep in the Florida swamps, I came face to face with a 10-foot python - and caught it with my bare hands.

Two pickup trucks slammed into each other and crashed into a police cruiser in a dramatic chain reaction. As the vehicles ...

Graphic novelist and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi has died. Satrapi earned acclaim for her best-selling graphic memoirs, ...