The Golden State has added an official shrub and snake, both selected for how they embody California’s natural resilience.

The Nassau grouper is drawn by the winter moon, between December and March, to special places where hundreds of the cryptic ...

But there’s nothing supernatural about how snakes move. So how exactly do they get around without legs? They do it by ...

"Irwin's wolf snake" can grow to more than three feet in length, report the researchers who described the new species.

There is a mysterious island just 20 miles off the coast of southeastern Brazil that is so infested with deadly snakes that ...

Sophie, the Duchess of Edinburgh, posed with Paddington Bear at the British Embassy in Peru before meeting the country's ...

The Duchess of Edinburgh has kicked off a 10-day tour of South and Central America, where she came face-to-face with the ...

Duchess Sophie looked nervous this week as she met the “king of spiders” in the Peruvian Amazon. The Duchess of Edinburgh, 60 ...

The Duchess of Edinburgh has come face-to-face with the "king of spiders" in the Peruvian Amazon. Sophie brought her hand to ...

The Duchess of Edinburgh was exploring the Peruvian Amazon, seeing sloths, snakes and spiders during her tour of South and Central America.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The small Central American nation of Belize has signed a “safe third country” agreement with the United States, the two sides said on Monday, as the Trump administration seeks to ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom has been busy in recent weeks signing bills on everything from housing policy to prescription drug costs. But he also signed legislation last week that included two new symbols for ...