Garter snakes get their name from the garter belt, a narrow band of fabric once used to hold up stockings, since many species ...

Tennessee is home to 32 species of snakes, but only four of them secrete venom. They vary in size, color and habitat of ...

Beyond the fossil hunting, Rockport offers plenty of other reasons to visit. The park has a nice network of trails that wind ...

An entomologist researched the worms used in mescal to better understand the relationship between the creatures and specific agave plants - and the danger if harvesting increases.

What scientists called one cavefish turned out to be three. A new cavefish species had been evolving in isolation for eight ...

Be warned. Hen opens with pornographic detail: an anatomical close-up of a chicken laying an egg. It’s simultaneously comic, verging on body horror, and wholly arresting. The chick that hatches during ...

Kara Young and Mallori Johnson play twins bent on revenge in the playwright Aleshea Harris’s powerhouse film debut. By Lisa Kennedy When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film ...

Sometimes the best swimming holes in Illinois aren’t natural at all, and that’s perfectly fine when they look this spectacular. Centennial Beach in Naperville proves that humans occasionally improve ...

The island quarry looks quiet now, but the ruins tell a much bigger story. Old rails still lead toward the man-made pier where granite blocks were loaded onto vessels and shipped away. The buildings ...

Parallel Tales: Asghar Farhadi plays with ideas of artistic voyeurism in a frustratingly opaque French-language drama ...