YAKIMA, Wash. - We live out in orchard country, so we're never far from nature. Our home, particularly an unfinished part of the basement, seems, much to Ellen's consternation, to be habitat for mice.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Arizona has many venomous and scary-looking snakes, not to mention we also have some of the biggest snakes as well. The gopher ...

As you can see from the photograph featured in today’s column, snakes can swim. The picture, taken by a marine deputy with the Boise County Sheriff’s Office earlier this month, shows a large gopher ...