In the summer of 2021, a woman in the Atlanta area was forced to surrender her pet serval, a medium-sized wild cat native to Africa, after it escaped from her home and wandered into a neighbor’s ...

Florida has a new invasive lizard that will require a lot of monitoring to keep the state's residents and natural spaces safe. The Nile monitor, an aggressive and fast-spreading invasive species, is ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. This lizard’s physiology rewrites what we thought reptiles ...

An online educational resource, WorldAtlas, has outlined some of the most “dangerous” lakes in the United States. These locations “consistently rise to the top of danger lists because they combine ...

During the holidays, many individuals and families will take to the road to travel home for the holidays. With increased traffic because of more drivers on the road, and travelers driving long ...

When Mayor Frank Picozzi learned Warwick, Rhode Island, had topped a list of the safest cities in the United States, he wasn't surprised. The charming city on the coast took advantage of federal money ...

In 2025, people who built their careers by being some form of Very Online are now some of the most powerful people in the world. Topping the list—as we predicted he would last year—is Donald Trump.

Out-of-state visitors may not know what they’re looking at, but fans of Texas Christian University (TCU) get fired up when SuperFrog runs onto the football field. Human-size and gray, with pointy ...

Lizards: Depending on your personality, you might love them, hate them, or just be indifferent towards them. These reptiles are quite diverse, with at least 6,000 known species in the world, and ...

Michigan’s three most-populous counties accounted for 12 of the state’s 20 most dangerous intersections in 2024. Macomb, Oakland and Wayne counties each had four intersections make the list, followed ...