Dusk starts to settle across the landscape. The dirt trail, lit by the last licks of sunlight, winds through the trees. The ...

To write about the increase in snake encounters in Australia, a journalist had to get hands-on with the slithering reptiles. By Natasha Frost Natasha Frost is a reporter based in Melbourne, Australia.

Humans exhibit rapid, intense reactions to snakes and spiders, rooted in ancient survival instincts. Specific visual cues ...

So that's why "Snakes on a Plane" gave us the heebie-jeebies! Two University of Virginia researchers have found that humans have a genetic predisposition to be mortally afraid of snakes. "I basically ...

At one exercise studio, goat and puppy yoga are a thing of the past. Now, people can relax while having a snake slither up their backs. LXRYOGA, a studio in Costa Mesa, California, offers the latest ...

With Halloween just around the corner, many of us have creepy imagery on the mind, especially as we gear up to decorate our houses with ghosts and goblins and muster up the scariest costumes we can ...

If everything we heard about snakes in southeast Texas were true, we couldn't walk to the mailbox without stepping on a dozen of them. Fear and ignorance conjure fantastic images. I made conversation ...

2025 is the year of the snake. For me it was 2021. After moving back East, I spent a few months living in a friend’s country home in rural Connecticut. Just me, my husband and the six rat snakes ...