A few days ago, while walking through the Bandaranaike Museum at the BMICH, I paused before a modest but telling artifact: a briefcase labelled “Minister of Local Government,” once belonging to the ...

A Story of East and West during the recent holidays, picking it up at random from our bookshelves at home. The title of the book was intriguing enough to catch my attention. The author’s name, however ...

Florida incentivizes hunters to eliminate invasive Burmese pythons through programs offering cash rewards. The invasive snakes, numbering in the tens of thousands, disrupt the Everglades ecosystem by ...

King cobras are the world's longest venomous snakes. So, imagine seeing one a few feet away as you embark on a train in India. The Western Ghats King Cobra (Ophiophagus kaalinga)—a vulnerable king ...

Learn how to draw the Celestial Sphere using Web VPython in Python Physics! This guide will walk you through creating a stunning 3D representation of the night sky, perfect for astronomy enthusiasts ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. More than 4,200 species of snakes exist on the planet and ...

If you go to a show at The Secret Group and see a sign saying “No Snakes Allowed,” this is the story of why. On May 25, The Secret Group in EaDo was hosting its regular “Late Night Dirty Show,” an ...

Florida couple Christina Kraus and Aaron Mann captured 87 invasive pythons from the Everglades in July, setting that month’s record and netting them thousands of dollars in payouts for helping remove ...

A ball python, also called the royal python, is a less troublesome cousin to the Burmese, and has been eating its way through the Everglades for decades. Ball pythons are native to west sub Saharan ...