Wood ducks thrive on a flexible diet of acorns, plants, and insects, helping them recover across North America.

To understand this phenomenon more closely, let us take a look at seven things snakes do when they are undergoing brumation. These are strange but important elements of a snake’s behaviour. During ...

Some deadly mushrooms are easy to mistake for their tasty counterparts, resulting in several serious illnesses and one death ...

Dragline silk or major ampullate (MA) silk, the part of a spider's web that forms the main frame and spokes, is one of the ...

What do these creatures eat? It may well be the reason I've spent the past three years tackling this very question.

Some folks may say one good thing about the cold weather is no copperheads. That’s right, across much of South Carolina copperheads and other snakes have entered what’s called brumation. It’s when ...

Picture an animal that huddles up with others when stressed, babysits its young, hangs out around relatives, and gathers in big groups every year. Did you imagine a rattlesnake? For a long time, ...

Driving can feel like being on autopilot sometimes. There's just you, the road, maybe some music, and a chance to zone out or sort through your thoughts. Now, imagine that calm being shattered as you ...

You don’t expect the outskirts of New Airport Road to suddenly hand you a brunch spot that feels like a crossover episode between a petting zone and a breezy outdoor bar, but Wild Pour does exactly ...

“They are the ones that have to be able to strike as quickly as possible,” says Alistair Evans, a zoologist at Monash University in Melbourne. It typically takes mammals between 60 to 400 milliseconds ...

An Alameda whipsnake, doing its thing: climbing. Scientists have suggested that using traps hung in trees might improve their efforts to find this elusive and semi-arboreal snake. (Angel ...

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...