With their signature noisy tails, rattlesnakes have often captured people’s imagination, in books and movies, or in the wild. “Nobody is apathetic about rattlesnakes,” said Jimmy Stiles, a biologist ...

even longer tails — some species’ tails reached 50 feet in length. They were wide-ranging, but especially flourished in what’s now the western US around 152 million years ago. For decades ...

Scientists captured the footage at a depth of 1,604 feet (489 meters ... or rattails because of their large heads and slender tails. These widespread deep-sea fish occupy the cold waters of ...

Why do mice have tails? The answer to this is not as simple ... as a metric of how well the mouse's body is positioned over its feet. To capture these finer nuances of the movements, the ...

By Jack Tamisiea With hornlike facial fins and diamond-shape bodies that can stretch nearly 30 feet across ... mantas and related rays have such long tails has long been a mystery.