It’s not venomous, not rare, and not flashy. But it might just be one of Kerala’s most important wild neighbours. Could ...

Black rats in Australia have developed a genetic mutation that’s linked with resistance to common rat poisons. And there’s more bad news. Ratsak is losing its bite: How to get rid of the rats ...

Thanks to its humidity, the Cotton State is home to plenty of snakes. Discover the most dangerous snakes in Alabama.

A change to a single gene in the bacterium Yersinia pestis has enabled one of the world’s most notorious pathogens to survive for centuries.

The Everglades are the most snake-infested area in the state, primarily due to the invasive non-native species, the Burmese ...

Mysuru: In the last 17 months, Mysuru district reported 1,033 snakebite cases, including 84 in Mysuru city, with five ...

In much of the eastern United States, it’s not uncommon to spot a snake slithering through the leaves, crossing a trail, or ...

Rats are our shadow selves. We live on the surface of the city; they generally live below. We mostly work by day; they mostly work by night. But nearly everywhere that people live, rats live too.

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

Florida has dozens of nonnative lizard species that are bigger, faster and stronger than native species. They have teeth, and some have bad attitudes. Here’s a look at which ones can ...

When there’s no more room in hell, zombie movies will still walk the Earth—but the best zombie movies demonstrate why this ...

Joseph Mitchell writes about New York’s rats, whose population increased during the Second World War, and speaks to various experts about the creatures’ habits and the difficulties of ...