One of the hottest classes of drugs in the world owes part of its origin story to a weird desert lizard with a venomous bite ...

It’s a lot like being guarded by Arizona’s Ivan Kharchenkov. “He plays,” teammate Koa Peat said, “with an edge.” Kharchenkov ...

What started as a simple wildlife sighting quickly turned into a tense close encounter with one of the desert’s most famous ...

Learn how an unlikely discovery in a venomous lizard led to one of today’s most influential drugs and why future ...

The Gila monster is one of the few venomous lizards in the world. Slow-moving but powerful, it delivers a bite you won’t forget.

Researchers at Saguaro National Park are going where few scientists have been brave enough to go before - into the mouths of Gila monsters. A project has been tracking the venomous creatures at the ...

Long before Ozempic and Wegovy became household names, a Department of Veterans Affairs researcher studying Gila monster venom in a Bronx laboratory made a discovery that would revolutionize diabetes ...

In the battleground of nature, many animals have evolved mechanisms to both eat and avoid being eaten. This includes the production of chemical toxins, which may be used to incapacitate prey and make ...

The New Mexico Department of Health reported a hiker in the Gila National Forest was bitten by a rabid coyote. The hiker, whose name was not released to the media, is being treated to prevent ...

SILVER CITY, New Mexico (KVIA) -- A rabid coyote bit a hiker in the Gila National Forest, near Silver City. The hiker did not require hospitalization, according to a spokesperson for the New Mexico ...

When Lee Harvey Oswald ducked into the Texas Theatre after assassinating JFK on Nov. 22, 1963, he likely never even contemplated the idea that he was laying the groundwork for an annual tradition.

But they weren’t all winners. In fact, quite a few ’50s monster movies were extremely rough around the edges. But, of those lesser films, some of them continue to hold a compulsively watchable charm.