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While investigating everything from bizarre coincidences to ghoulish encounters, Sarah Knapton, our Science Editor, and Joe ...

Popular belief often points to apex predators such as lions or tigers as deadliest animals. However, most lethal animals are ...

Few snakes have as dazzling a reputation as the black mamba. In movies, books, and legends, it is considered a deadly icon, perhaps the most dangerous snake in the world. Just its name instills fear ...

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Two tourists are speaking out after they managed to escape an angry elephant while on a canoe safari trip in Botswana, an incident that was caught on camera. In the video clip, an elephant protecting ...

Colorado’s outdoors are home to plenty of critters that you should be aware of when you venture out. And the most dangerous animal in the world, as ranked by the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Black mambas (Dendroaspis polylepis) are Africa's longest, most famous venomous snakes. Despite their fearsome reputation, ...

In the forests of South Africa lurks an arachnophobe’s nightmare – Nephila kowaci, the largest web-spinning spider in the world. The females of this newly discovered species have bodies that are 3-4 ...