Costa Rica is home to 141 species of snakes, and it’s a common concern that several of those species are going to invade your house, slither into your suitcase, or bite your unsuspecting children. My ...

Birds of Costa Rica 01:51. Scientists have used infrared thermography, a technique that allows them to see heat distribution change over time in a living animal.

The flight from San Jose takes just under two hours, our twin-engine plane gliding low over jungled hills, white beaches and ...

Costa Rica's yellow sea snake curls up before striking prey, a technique that hasn't been seen in other sea snakes. Costa Rica's yellow sea snake curls up before striking prey, a technique that ...

Snakes, like other reptiles, rely on the environment around them to regulate their body temperature, ... Snakes in Costa Rica Bite People More Often During El Niño Years ...

The biggest increase he saw was in three of Costa Rica’s most dangerous snakes — the fer-de-lance, the hognose pit viper and the eyelash palm pit viper. Camacho wrote to various government official ...

The incidence of infectious disease around the world rise and fall in sync with the climate cycle, as do mosquito-born diseases, such as Malaria and ...