Snakebites are a silent global health crisis, claiming an estimated 138,000 fatalities annually, of which 58,000 fatalities, the world's highest, are in India. India hosts over 60 venomous and 240 ...

Saguaro Park in southeastern Arizona, near Tucson, offers a landscape unlike anything you’ll see elsewhere. The park hosts ...

Food fights don’t always happen in cafeterias-sometimes they happen right at your dinner table. You know those moments when ...

Some heritage has remained, we discover, catching a boat at the Suwaidi Pearl Farm, the region’s first cultured pearl farm ...

This spider may look like it's suffering an exorcism, but this spider is actually swapping out its exoskeleton.

Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, about 25 miles southeast of Hiroshima, has faced a growing infestation of invasive spider ...

A former Royal Marine has had a finger amputated, 13 years after being bitten by a black widow spider. Plymstock resident Dan Cheetham, 41, suffered the venomous bite on his right hand in 2012 while ...

A hiker was evacuated by air on October 29 from the rugged and remote Kalalau Trail in Hawaii after he was “unable to hike out due to a rapidly worsening infection from an apparent spider bite,” wrote ...

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Although the word “spider” may elicit a “yuck” or an “ew” from many readers, the true nature of these oft-feared critters is not as icky as one might suppose. Arachnids provide essential services for ...

Sixty-five feet below the surface of the Gulf, I felt I could breathe a little easier. The descent had been an adventure for our scuba diving team. The rip current was impossible to swim against, even ...