Biologists trudged through the grassy nature preserve carrying cloth bags that contained fearsome-seeming cargo: 42 snake-eating apex predators. The conservation program has now released 209 Eastern ...

A commercial fisherman nabbed a large male Chinese mitten crab in the lower Columbia River late last month, putting ...

During that cleanup, park officials noticed something had changed across the more than 1,100-acre park – an exploding gopher tortoise population. Fort De Soto Park Manager, Dave Harshbarger ...

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“Plots with historic gopher activity harbored more diverse bacterial and fungal communities than the surrounding old-growth forests," the team explained. "We also found more diverse fungal ...

The park is home to Gila monsters, Gopher snakes, bark scorpions, tarantulas and tarantula hawks. Saguaro National Park in southern Arizona also made the list, coming in at No. 10. The park ranked ...

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Pupils: They usually have round pupils. No rattle: Nonvenomous snakes do not have a rattle on their tail. “Gopher snakes, harmless, will sometimes make a rattling, hissing noise through their ...

"However, a number of harmless snakes when defending themselves will vigorously shake their tail in dry leaves or gravel and can sometimes remotely sound like a rattlesnake.” “Gopher snakes ...