Mississippi is home to 56 species of snakes and the vast majority are harmless when it comes to humans. However, six of the species in Mississippi are venomous and can inflict a nasty bite if not ...

“They are the ones that have to be able to strike as quickly as possible,” says Alistair Evans, a zoologist at Monash University in Melbourne. It typically takes mammals between 60 to 400 milliseconds ...

In nature, many animals mimic others, for a variety of purposes. Now scientists have uncovered the latest example of this peculiar ability—finding that the Congolese giant toad mimics the appearance ...