Using pickled snakes collected decades ago and stored in an underground bunker of collections, scientists have found ways to get DNA samples from specimens previously considered near-impossible to get ...

A Chinese woman was bitten by a “dead” snake she’d been marinating in sorghum wine for three months. The woman reportedly opened the jar containing the pit viper to stir and then pour herself a shot ...

The woman had soaked the snake in wine for three months in preparation for making snake wine or shejiu. In China many believe the concoction has the ability to lessen or eliminate rheumatism. As the ...

Two levels underground, Chicago's Field Museum has a secret bunker. The sub-basement Collections Resource Center houses millions of biological specimens for scientists around the world to use in their ...