From demon to danger noodle, human ideas about snakes can be as contradictory as the creatures themselves. In Slither, Stephen S. Hall challenges our serpent stereotypes.

Something very strange has happened to American colonialism. Somewhere between the shock-and-awe of Dubya's New American Century and the explosive verbal ...

The Romans had a curious punishment for parricides (murder of a parent): the condemned was submersed in water in a sack, which also contained a dog, a rooster, a viper and an ape.[1] The most ...

FLORIDA KEYS HISTORY CENTER/Monroe County Library Collection Rattlesnakes are pit vipers. Pit vipers have two little heat ... He was also one of the first American authors to become a millionaire.

From March 21-23, a drone flew above a five-mile stretch from South Pointe Park to the Eden Roc Hotel, towing a full-size ad banner announcing Pit Viper's latest campaign: $1,000 buried somewhere ...

South American nations are poised to benefit from the US-China trade war by filling gaps in global supply chains for agricultural commodities like cereals, according to a top United Nations economist.

An American preacher who was taken hostage by armed men while preaching a sermon in a South African township last week has been rescued in a fierce gun battle with his kidnappers, police said ...

Commercial sector lawmaker Jeffrey Lam on Saturday said some shippers could consider using South American ports as an alternative to US ports. Lam made the remarks after Washington on Thursday ...

The Santa Maria fell smack in the middle of the great golden age of North American mares that took ... You don't need to have a mare from South America to win the Santa Maria, but it helps.