Kentucky has a slew of snake species, but very few are venomous. Find out how to spot them before your next hike.

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

Known to science as Dermatobia hominis, the human botfly can be found across Central and South America. A reasonably common ...

Snake, scorpion, and spider venom are most frequently associated with poisonous bites, but with the help of artificial ...

Summer’s here and so are the stings. From nettles to ticks to jellyfish, here’s how to treat (and avoid) the season’s most painful bites.

Veterinary Specialists of Birmingham has already seen dozens of snake bite cases this summer. Dr. Laura Alverson says they ...

We often hear people talking about venomous and poisonous animals, so you’d easily be forgiven for thinking that they mean ...

Snakes play a valuable role in maintaining pest populations. Most snakes you’ll see in your yard are more of a nuisance than ...

They bite, excrete acid, asphyxiate their prey and create huge super colonies that are hard to kill. What to know ...

The cordyceps species in "The Last of Us," Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, is real and does exactly what the show purports —just ...

The U.S. has closed its southern border again to livestock imports, saying that a flesh-eating parasite has moved further ...

The Department of Agriculture on Wednesday halted cattle shipments from Mexico to the United States over concerns of the New World screwworm parasite's rapid spread.