Chewing food into little pieces may be helpful for human digestion, but snakes prefer to ingest their meals in one gulp.

What if you couldn't chew your food, but chug down meals greater than your own body mass in a single sitting? What if, before ...

Scientists used gene-editing technology to create “Peter Pan” tadpoles that would eat the eggs of Australia’s cane toads—and ...

I was lucky enough to have a companion who was always willing to participate in an outdoors adventure. Those adventures ran ...

One of the most interesting strategies animals use to avoid predators is a behaviour known as thanatosis, or “playing dead.” ...

Mongooses and weasels, often mistaken, are distinct creatures with unique traits. Mongooses, related to cats, thrive in ...

Vulnerable amphibians are getting some help from an effective and pretty simple intervention–wildlife underpass tunnels. Long ...

From their odd appendages to their unsavory hygiene, certain animals suffer an image problem. But their awkward attributes ...

From Julia Donaldson's Where's My Mum? to Jill Murphy's Meltdown!, these are the children's books I've read over and over ...

King Cobras and Queen Snakes, though both reptiles, differ vastly. King Cobras, apex predators reaching 18 feet, boast highly ...

Scientists in Australia have a problem: the invasive cane toad is taking over. These toads have been an ecological threat to ...