Dr. Terry Hunt from the University of Arizona and Dr. Carl Lipo from the University of Birmingham have published a study in ...

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An Australian snake catcher came to the rescue to remove a “huge” snake from a back garden in Dulong, Queensland. Daniel Busstra, who goes by Snake Catcher Dan, said that he was called to move the ...

Ohio is home to three rare venomous snakes: the timber rattlesnake, the copperhead, and the massasauga rattlesnake. The timber rattlesnake and massasauga rattlesnake are both endangered species in ...

Few city rats have left their mark on the public consciousness — and the urban landscape — like the one responsible for the famed “Chicago rat hole.” (“Pizza Rat” is a notable exception.) But the ...

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A new study finds Chicago’s viral "rat hole" was likely made by an eastern gray squirrel. Scientists analyzed measurements from eight local rodent species and ruled out the brown rat. The imprint, ...

A woman has died after being shot by an RCMP officer who was responding to an assault call in Eastern Passage, N.S., according to the province’s independent police watchdog. RCMP were called just ...

Milepost 31 Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer recharge site near Eden. (Courtesy Idaho Water Resource Board) The Idaho Water Resource Board started annual Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer recharge operations Oct ...

Scientists who inspected Chicago's famous "rat hole" now say the imprint was not actually made by a rat, calling it a case of "mistaken identity." In an analysis published in the journal Biology ...

Streakers, hippies, canines (most adorably in the 1962 World Cup quarter-final between England and Brazil when Jimmy Greaves cuddled the intruding dog only for it to pee on him) and cats, sometimes a ...