Tyler White, 35, a Denver resident and UNC Charlotte alum, wound up on the new “Fear Factor” TV show despite never actually ...

A Tampa-area school counselor is getting national attention after appearing as a contestant on “Fear Factor: House of Fear,” ...

Six-month-old babies show stress responses when viewing images of snakes and spiders, long before they could have learned this reaction through experience. When babies saw pictures of snakes and ...

Research: Fear of reptiles may be universal, but it's not necessarily innate. Jan. 26, 2011— -- Fear of snakes, spiders and other creepy crawlers is so universal that most of us probably believe ...

For many visitors, the notion of walking through a national park evokes images of gritty trails and gorgeous views (not to ...

If everything we heard about snakes in southeast Texas were true, we couldn't walk to the mailbox without stepping on a dozen of them. Fear and ignorance conjure fantastic images. I made conversation ...

So that's why "Snakes on a Plane" gave us the heebie-jeebies! Two University of Virginia researchers have found that humans have a genetic predisposition to be mortally afraid of snakes. "I basically ...