Lake Metroparks Naturalist Nick Gaye said snakes “sometimes get a negative rap,” and acknowledged that a lot of people are ...

The National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium in Dubuque visited the Steamboat Rock Library on June 17, teaching local ...

My guide, Thai American snake expert Christopher Shannon, caught it in the beam of his flashlight, the snake’s chartreuse ...

An insider's look at Florida’s war on invaders: the giant snakes, egg-eating predators and parasites spreading through the ...

On May 4th, an event called the Literary Flea Market was held at the International Exhibition Center, which is familiar to us, and I attended as a general participant. I've started reading books in ...

A man walks into a small muddy stream to show how snapping turtles hide during the day. He warns that they can be found under banks, roots, and soft mud, but the real danger is getting too close to ...

Ed. note: This conversation appeared in the weekly Book Pages newsletter. Get it for free here. This week, I get to share my conversation with one of the country’s finest authors, Louise Erdrich. A ...

Louise Erdrich was getting help with her computer when her daughter discovered something on the hard drive. A short story. “‘Love of My Days’ was a forgotten file in my computer, and when I found it ...

“I feel like it did,” Erdrich says with amusement, acknowledging the blurred line between her life and imagination. She’s talking about “Python’s Kiss,” a short story that is also the title of her new ...

Yoga classes featuring animals are pretty old news. You're probably already familiar with people doing downward dog alongside actual dogs, or letting a goat scamper across their tabletop pose. In ...

The team, half of whom are women, captures alligators for health checks and tracks invasive Burmese pythons. Researchers use technology like radio telemetry, drones, and thermal cameras to manage ...

Carrying the lingering excitement of the cruise, after disembarking the Bellissima, we stayed in Okinawa and spent two nights at 'Oku Yanbaru no Sato' in Oku Yanbaru, the northernmost part of the main ...