Mellissa Hairston has been living in the Atlanta area for 15 years. But it wasn't until Memorial Day 2024, while soaking up ...

Its scientific name is Loxosceles arizonica. It's a horrible arachnid more commonly know as the Arizona brown spider (closely related to the brown recluse, which is not common this far west).

Highly aggressive Africanized honey bees, the so-called "killer bees," are moving north and spreading as climate change ...

Why do snakes flick their tongues? Can snakes smell fear? Here are 10 amazing facts about rattlesnakes, flying snakes and ...

Tomatoes were reviled for centuries—so how did we come to embrace them? This small New Jersey town claims to have played a major role. Once called the "poison apple," tomatoes were thought to be ...

A familiar rattlesnake slithered into a biologist’s campsite near a ghost town in Arizona. Turns out, the biologist moved the same rattlesnake out of the same camp four years earlier, the Arizona Game ...

A very mild winter and unusually warm temperatures have caused scorpion populations to explode in Arizona. Learn how to ...

The Arizona bark scorpion (Centruroides sculpturatus) is the most venomous scorpion in North America. Don’t let its small ...