Snake's light-absorbing secret

An elderly woman from Mokopane is in a critical condition after being bitten by a black mamba she was trying to chase off with a can of insecticide and a broomstick, according to a report on Friday.Sarie Senekal (76) was airlifted to the Polokwane ...

MOSCOW In Russia, the year of the black water snake — 2013 — has already brought a lot of public events that have had their effect on central TV programming and Internet blog activities. The country has lost several notable public figures — ...

The Pretoria Zoo's elusive black mamba, nicknamed Houdini, was returned to its public display terrarium on Tuesday... The snake had not been on view since its re-capture around three weeks ago, spokesman Craig Allenby said. "It's the first time we ...

CAIRO The yellow horse-drawn gasoline tank is out in the open, on a busy highway that snakes along a poor slum in eastern Cairo. Trucks and cars stop to fill up. Pedestrians come by, too, with plastic containers to fill. The yellow tank isnt alone.

Marie Brush Breaker Randall speaks to truck drivers en route to the Albertan tar sands. Debra White Plume and Marie Brush Breaker Randall stood in the middle of Highway 44, alongside more than 70 other members of the Oglala Lakota Nation. For ...

I popped my back out charging to save my bride, yesterday. Not one but TWO big black snakes got in our kitchen and we're doing the premature dance, getting ready for their annual egg celebration, we're whirling around, slithering and snapping ...

CANNES, France In 1995, Will Smith begged producer Jerry Bruckheimer to let him go to the Cannes Film Festival to promote Bad Boys, despite the parent studios insistence that a black actor would not get any traction with the international fans and ...

Name three dangerous animals. If you're the average person in America, your list probably includes sharks, snakes, bears or maybe even mountain lions. While all of these animals are efficient killing machines in their own right, three of them (guess ...

Nature photography stills and live action is a cultural staple, like Honest Abe Lincoln, celebrity self-immolation and the myth that Shakespeare didnt write his own plays. But why? Well, nature pictures sate our base animal curiosity, the same kind ...