The complex biology of ghrelin, the hunger hormone, has researchers wondering how its absence helps snakes last a long time with no food, if at all.

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

Today, Tuesday, Feb. 17, marks the beginning of the Lunar New Year, sometimes called Chinese New Year. This is the year of ...

Often dismissed as pests, opossums are among the most misunderstood mammals in North America. When threatened, they don’t choose to “play dead” — they involuntarily enter a stress-induced comatose ...

Researchers Bruna Falcão and Omar Entiauspe-Neto have noticed that hundreds of snake species are more cannibalistic than previously thought. The majority of cannibalistic snakes are found in the ...

"This snake could easily swallow at least a calf, if not an adult cow," an explorer and natural history photographer said of the python ...