While many animals pose little threat to humans, a few are responsible for a significant number of fatalities annually. Here ...

The person who found a blue dragon sea slug — whose sting can cause nausea, vomiting, and an allergic skin reaction — and ...

Mississippi’s official state drink is…milk. That’s it. Just milk. Springfield, Missouri, has massive underground caves ...

Amending the Live Import List to include new aquatic species We have adopted the Aquatic Species Invasiveness Screening Kit (AS-ISK) mode, a taxon-generic decision-support tool, for all aquatic ...

The giant African snail (Achatina fulica) is not poisonous to humans, but it can be harmful in other ways as it is an agricultural pest that can damage crops and plants, and it can also carry ...

Ozempic was derived from Gila monsters, a lizard native to the southwestern US; Prialt, used to treat chronic pain in HIV and cancer patients, comes from deadly cone snails; and captopril ...

Though it's hard to make out exactly what they're eating, Asian openbills are known to feed on snails. A video was uploaded to Facebook, on Feb. 18, by one Chris Ang, of a group of six openbills ...

These bacteriophages—1,100 types—eliminate pollution and ensure self-purification, marking Ganga as the world's only freshwater river with such capabilities. PRAYAGRAJ: Despite over 60 crore ...

According to a study conducted by a leading scientist reveals that Ganga is the world's only freshwater river where 1,100 types of bacteriophages naturally purify the water by eliminating pollution ...

Memoir of a Snail is the definition of an emotional roller-coaster, weaving between dark and light as we travel through the little ups and colossal downs of a girl called Grace and her twin brother ...

Of all the bugs New Zealanders could have selected to win an international competition, they chose neither the prettiest, nor the most useful. The NZ velvet worm won this year’s New Zealand Bug ...

And while they do belong to the nightshade plant family (Solanaceae), those “poison apples” weren’t really poisoning the aristocrats who ate them. Instead, it’s now understood that highly ...