Celebrate Lunar New Year at Jax Oriental Market with a traditional Lion Dance and nearby local restaurants. Here's what to know ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, the first animals to crawl onto land were strict meat-eaters, even as plants had already taken over the landscape. Now scientists have uncovered a ...

Guinness World Records recently confirmed that Ibu Baron, a reticulated python ( Malayopython reticulatus ), is believed to ...

The reticulated python comes in many different colors, including one that is almost like a rainbow! Read here to learn more.

A silent disaster is unfolding in the Florida Everglades. An invasive giant snake, the Burmese python, has triggered a near ...

Snakes may well be one of nature's greatest predators, capable of eating whole deer or even crocodiles, but just as ...

Visiting a zoo or wildlife park, most people expect to see lions, crocodiles, or perhaps a noisy parrot. Few expect to meet a pale snake with a celebrity name and a long public career. Lady Gaga, an ...