St Patrick's Day is celebrated on March 17. But who was the man behind Ireland's - and the world's - greenest celebration?

Fossil reveals that a giant python over 4 meters long once lived in Taiwan. The discovery rewrites the island's natural history.

The snake bit him near the Quail Hill Community Center, the start of an approximately 2-mile trail, according to the Orange County Coroner.

To mark 20 years of the BBC TV series Planet Earth, we look at some of the filming firsts it captured – including a ‘zombie’ fungus ...

A research team led by scientists at the Butantan Institute in São Paulo, Brazil, has completed the most extensive genetic sequencing of a jararaca viper to date. The focus of the study was the genome ...

Airstrikes across the country reveal a coordinated attempt to weaken Iran’s leadership, security apparatus, missile forces and nuclear program.

Florida wildlife becomes especially active in spring, and state officials are urging residents to stay alert and avoid ...

As Bar Ilan University professor Joshua Berman engagingly and convincingly demonstrates in his “Echoes of Egypt” Haggadah, the process by which the Passover story took shape was as a polemic against ...

Thalia’s Umbrella discomforts audiences (in a good way) with this play about making theater in an authoritarian state.

The United States has over 700,000 miles of public sewer pipes, enough to wrap around the Earth 28 times. Every day, people flush billions of gallons of wastewater into the sprawling subterranean ...

Florida incentivizes hunters to eliminate invasive Burmese pythons through programs offering cash rewards. The invasive snakes, numbering in the tens of thousands, disrupt the Everglades ecosystem by ...