A house filled with snakes and spiders might be straight out of many people's nightmares, but to longtime exotic pet keeper ...

This story originally published in the September 2008 issue of National Geographic magazine. See more digitized stories from our archives here. The biologist Iain Douglas-Hamilton is walking up on an ...

The discovery that small stone arrow tips were treated with plant poison 60,000 years ago means that ancient African hunters ...

Five quartz arrowheads found in a South African cave were laced with a slow-acting tumbleweed poison that would have tired ...

New chemical analysis of quartz microliths from South Africa confirms that humans were skilled with poison long ago.

For thousands of years, hunters around the world have employed poison-tipped arrows to assist in taking down prey. For ...

A collection of arrow points excavated in South Africa has provided the oldest direct evidence of hunters deploying ...

South African authorities raided a U.S. refugee facility in Johannesburg, briefly detaining U.S. staff who have been processing white Afrikaner refugees. The episode is sure to be a source of further ...

Most shark bites in Florida are not deadly. However, there was an unfortunate 2010 attack where a 38-year-old Stuart man who ...

The Art Porter Singers will continue one of their namesake's annual holiday traditions Sunday, performing portions of "Messiah" as well as a mix of Christmas carols and other seasonal songs at Little ...

Some of the biggest rock stars in history happen to be Jewish, either by birth or conversion. Given the rich musical tradition of the Jewish people, this should hardly come as a surprise. Songs are ...

Explore the remote rainforest of southwest Guyana, captured in ultra-high-definition aerial footage. This region, part of the ancient Guiana Shield, is one of South America's most ecologically rich ...