Bet you can’t look at this fungus without getting hungry (once you get past the name).

Found in North America and Europe, the “strawberries and cream” fungus, known affectionately to scientists as Hydnellum peckii or the Bleeding Tooth Fungus, is a fungus that looks like a delicious, sweet treat. When young, this organism excretes a red fluid that looks like blood giving the Bleeding Tooth Fungus its unique creamy-dotted appearance.

In 1961, during a highway construction project in northeastern Mexico, less than 200 miles from the Texas border, a pair of tracks, one left and one right, were uncovered in the Chihuahuan Desert. The tracks were excavated and taken to a local museum (Saltillo’s Museo del Desierto) for study. Now, over 50 years later, researchers…

Gila monster Heloderma suspectum Description: Robust, with a large head and a heavy tail. Its body is covered with beadlike scales. It is capable of storing fat against lean times when food is scarce. Its color is striking in rich blacks laced with yellow or pinkish scales. Characteristics: Not an aggressive lizard, but ready to…

Yellow-bellied sea snakePelamis platurus Description: Upper part of body is black or dark brown and lower part is bright yellow. Characteristics: A highly venomous snake belonging to the cobra family. This snake is truly of the pelagic species – it never leaves the water to come to shore. It has an oarlike tail to aid…

Western diamondback rattlesnake Crotalus atrox Description: The body is a light buff color with darker brown diamond-shaped markings. The tail has heavy black and white bands. Characteristics: This bold rattlesnake holds its ground. When coiled and rattling, it is ready to defend itself. It injects a large amount of venom when it bites, making it…

The Mojave Rattlesnake can be difficult to see in its native habitat

The Mojave Rattlesnake’s (also known as Mohave Rattlesnake, Mojave Green, Mojave Diamond Rattlesnake, and Mojave Rattler) entire body is a cream or sandy color, sometimes pale green (depending upon its surroundings) with darker diamond-shaped markings bordered by lighter-colored scales and black bands around the tail.

Eastern diamondback rattlesnakeCrotalus adamanteus Description: Dark brown or black, outlined by a row of cream or yellowish scales. Ground color is olive to brown. Characteristics: The largest venomous snake in the United States. Large snakes can have fangs that measure 2.5 centimeters (1 inch) in a straight line. This species has a sullen disposition, ready…

Eastern cottonmouth snake in a defensive position with gaping mouth

Also known as water moccasin, swamp moccasin or black moccasin. Cottonmouth snake colors are highly variable. Adults are uniformly olive brown or black with a distinctive white or yellowish-white mouth (which they display when threatened). The young and subadults are strongly crossbanded with dark brown, sometimes even copper colored.

The Coral Snake is colorfully marked with rings that are bright blacks, reds, and yellows in color.

Copperhead snakes, also known as death adder, highland moccasin, red snake, and oak snake, have a chestnut color that dominates overall, with darker crossbands of rich browns that grow darker towards the edges and become narrower on top and widen at the bottom.

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Bet you can’t look at this fungus without getting hungry (once you get past the name).

Oldest human footprints in North America identified -10,500-year-old footprints smash record

Gila Monster

Yellow Bellied Sea Snake – how to identify, avoid their habitat, and treatment for their bite.

Western diamondback rattlesnake – how to identify, avoid their habitat, and treatment for their bite.

Mojave (Mohave) rattlesnake – how to identify, avoid their habitat, and treatment for their bite.

Eastern diamondback rattlesnake – how to identify, avoid their habitat, and treatment for their bite.

All about the Cottonmouth snake – how to identify, avoid their habitat, and treat a Water Moccasin bite.

Coral snake – how to identify, avoid their habitat, and treatment for their bite.

American copperhead snake – how to identify, avoid their habitat, and treatment for their bite.

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