Snakes may not be known for wagging tails or greeting their owners at the door, but some species are thought to be ...

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I recently purchased a six-year-old car, which makes a hissing sound when I apply the brakes. The salesman who sold me the car said it was normal. What is the cause of the noise and is it really ...

Source: Francis C. Franklin, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC-BY-SA-3.0 license. In what’s referred to as Batesian mimicry, harmless species can protect themselves from predators by ...

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Contrarian investors are confident that a major stock-market top is on the horizon — they just don’t know when. That’s because investor optimism can stay dangerously elevated for months before the ...

It’s a bull, it’s a bear, it’s a — what? You may have heard these terms thrown around in reference to what the stock market is currently doing. In short, a bull market is one that is on the up-and-up, ...

High-speed video helped researchers to get close-ups of the attack strategies of three snake families. By Ari Daniel Venomous snakes inhabit a different perceptual world than we do. “Before the mammal ...

BILLINGS - This one was big, and strong, too. When Billings Animal Control Officer Cindi Katschke got the call Wednesday a little after 3 p.m., she was expecting a rattlesnake. Instead, when Katschke ...

IOWA’S NEWS LEADER. THANK YOU BO. IT IS THE CASE OF THE BIG SNAKE SPOTTED IN DES MOINES. A PERSON WHO LIVES IN DES MOINES, WATERBURY NEIGHBORHOOD SAYS A BIG PYTHON HUNG FROM TREE BRANCHES LAST MONTH.

I don’t panic at the sight of snakes, but I definitely squirm on the inside. There’s something creepy about them. The coiling, the tongue flicking, the vertical slits they call pupils. … It’s all just ...