Smithsonian Magazine

Scientists Just Learned That This Bat Eats Birds Midflight. A Renaissance Painter May Have Known About It Hundreds of Years Ago

Last fall, scientists reported the first known recordings of greater noctule bats hunting and feasting on songbirds during ...

Florida pythons are edible. There's just one big problem

Python tacos? Python pizza? 'Chicken of the Glades?' Florida considered making invasive snakes a food source. Then science ...

Florida scientists confirm Burmese pythons can swallow full-grown deer, alligators whole

In a 2022 study, cited by AZ Animals, University of Cincinnati researcher Bruce Jayne and his team found that a python's ...

A lizard and snake safari 15 minutes from my city home

I had come here on an excursion with Bangkok Herping, a new walking-tour outfit that swaps the Thai capital city’s ...