A hungry bird has been pictured taking on a venomous snake in Texas. Posting on the Facebook group Texas Snake Identification, Waller resident Bonnie Blink said the bird was her "resident roadrunner." ...

American Bittern eating a mud snake at Brazos Bend State Park in March 2022. (Elise Kitchens, Elise Kitchens) BRAZOS BEND STATE PARK, Texas – The early bird gets the worm — or in this case, the snake.

The bird and carpet python were 'literally touching noses' when a professional arrived to remove the snake, per Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers A professional snake catcher intercepted a close call, ...

March 28 (UPI) --A professional snake catcher in Australia was called out to a home where a pet bird had a close call with a coastal carpet python that squeezed its head into the avian's cage. Stuart ...

Researchers had previously blamed Guam’s devastating brown tree snake invasion on the snake’s uniquely toxic venom. This venom, irditoxin, is actually present in all snakes within the cat-eye family, ...

Q: My husband was excited when he witnessed a robin building a nest by recycling a shed skin from a snake that lives at the foundation of our house in Clarksville, Tennessee. We're not sure exactly ...

The African savanna is home to many amazing and unique animals, including the secretary bird. This striking creature may look like it’s dressed for a fancy masquerade ball, but don’t expect it to be a ...

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 ...

To eat or get eaten. It describes the evolutionary race of snakes versus the mammals and birds that prey on these snakes. Muzaffar Ali Khan devoted his Ph.D. to investigating the molecular mechanisms ...