Happy Snake Day! These Louisiana experts hope you'll make forked-tongue friends, not foes. “If we didn’t have snakes, we’d be ...

Arizona’s wilderness is something to be proud of. From the canyons to the desert, there’s beauty in every direction. But the recent reports of hantavirus, rabies, and plague remind us ...

Hiss… Most of us get scared hearing this sound snakes produce, but it is primarily a defensive mechanism used to deter potential threats. People have a deadly fear of snakes, as a single bite can end ...

New research provides a potential brain-based explanation for social touch aversion in some forms of autism. A study published in Nature Communications finds that in a mouse model of Fragile X ...

Until a few years ago, most people who knew what a ghost pipe was had a degree in botany. The spindly stems of the parasitic species - which appear bleach-white because they lack chlorophyll - emerge ...

Bengaluru: The surge in rat and bandicoot populations, especially in residential and commercial areas, has triggered alarm ...

Ethical clarity arises not from rules, but from attention to what is unfolding. Imagination and empathy are core tools for ...

Fragile X disorders include two distinct conditions: fragile X syndrome (the most common single-gene cause of developmental delay and autism) and an entirely separate group of premutation syndromes.