A giant snake becomes the first major resident of a newly established reptile zoo. This video captures the careful move-in ...

Contrary to popular belief, water moccasins and cottonmouth snakes are the same snakes. Both terms refer to the same species, Agkistrodon piscivorus, a venomous water snake in North America. Read on ...

A reticulated python found in Indonesia broke the Guinness World Record for the longest, scientifically measured wild snake ...

Now in its 44th year, SEWE is the largest event of its kind in the U.S. And there’s still time left to join in the fun on Feb ...

Brown tree snakes, which are invasive in Guam, have caused local extinctions of bird and bat species. Eradication efforts are ...

Coming face-to-face with a large snake is enough to make most people freeze. In this short video circulating online, however, two boys do the opposite — stepping in when they see a large python ...

A cute video of an Amazon tree boa yawning went viral, but is it really yawning? Read here to learn more about why snakes yawn.

The largest python ever recorded demonstrated how extreme growth is biologically possible in constrictor snakes Unlike venomous species pythons rely on muscular coils to suffocate prey before swallowi ...

Carl Jackson has only been hunting snakes in Florida since June of 2025. He's off to a strong start with a near-record catch ...

Modern anacondas and pythons are massive, but fossil evidence shows they are not even close to the largest snakes to ever exist. Scientists have uncovered prehistoric snake fossils that reveal ...

A little over a decade ago, in 2015, farmers in the U.S. purchased more than 10,000 tons of “medically important” antibiotics—the same drugs used for people in hospitals and doctors’ offices—for their ...

The way food-chains usually work is that small things get eaten by bigger things, which in turn get eaten by even bigger things. But it’s not always that simple, says Stuart Blackman. A review back in ...