Hissing pipes are a telltale sign of plumbing problems — especially when there’s a snake inside. That was the circumstance for one horrified woman who found the slithering reptile in her toilet and ...

Buff-leaf hawkmoth larvae and pupae hiss by forcing air through spiracles, using breath-powered sounds to deter predators.

When it's time to head outside and enjoy the sunny, warm summer skies of East Tennessee -- it's good to know what kind of wildlife is out there in the many popular outdoor attractions. Especially ...

Startling bodycam footage captured a Colorado cop’s surprise after discovering a massive, hissing rattlesnake while searching a car — quipping that he knows from Steve Irwin documentaries “how these ...

TUCSON, Ariz. - The pipes were hissing for one Arizona woman for all the wrong reasons. Michelle Lespron said she called Hughes and his team to eliminate her fear of getting bitten. "So many people ...

Insect pupae hiss like snakes for defense. A Kobe University team now reveals the mechanisms, opening the door to further ...

A tiny gopher snake with a hiss worse than its bite was caught on video in Arizona trying to intimidate someone with the raspy wheeze of a chain smoker. Stranger still, the snake was a newborn, only ...

Source: Francis C. Franklin, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC-BY-SA-3.0 license. In what’s referred to as Batesian mimicry, harmless species can protect themselves from predators by ...