Every summer, communities across northern Australia brace for the tropical cyclone season. Tropical cyclones draw their power ...

We caught up with two professional python hunters and asked them what are the "essentials" that help them be successful in ...

Eating its prey can be a process for a python, which is why it relies so heavily on its jaw to get the job done, including ...

April set off down a wooded path on the North Fork, nose to the ground, darting and weaving through the bunchberry, blackberry and ferns. She wore a bright orange vest treated with permethrin to deter ...

Peak tomato season gets all the glory. Every summer, we celebrate tomatoes in their freshest form: sliced onto sandwiches, layered into caprese salads, piled onto toast. They’re the golden child of ...

I live about five minutes from campus, and like any other student in Metro Manila, I own a mini fan that announces my presence in any room. Even though I could feel the heat reach a new level in the ...

With warmer weather here to stay, Mississippi drivers may see more turtles trying to cross the road — especially after summer rain. Spring through October is peak turtle-crossing season in the ...

A 15-year-old Canadian student has built a robotic turtle that may point to a quieter, gentler way of watching over underwater ecosystems. The device, known as BURT (Bionic Underwater Robotic Turtle), ...

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A Yale-led research team has developed the first standalone device that produces the liquid fuel methanol using only sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide as the ingredients. The artificial “leaf,” like ...

A small, young alligator bit a 78-year-old Pompano Beach man on Wednesday as he returned a turtle to a lake in the Palm Aire community, fire rescue said. “He was so lucky that it was not a bigger one, ...

Researchers observed vultures eating invasive Burmese python eggs for the first time in Florida. The only other documented predator of python eggs in Florida is the bobcat. Scientists believe the ...