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 ...

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

Cannibalism in snakes has usually appeared as a footnote rather than a focus. It shows up in old field notebooks, brief case ...

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 ...

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.

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

He once let an anaconda try to eat him on television. Now Paul Rosolie reveals an even closer brush with death that reshaped his views on snakes and conservation.

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 ...

Professional python hunter needed his family’s help to wrest the second-heaviest invasive Burmese python on record out of the ...

When the weather gets cold in Florida, gators stop eating and iguanas start dropping. How do low temps affect the invasive Burmese python?

Animal names often sound precise, but many are the result of early guesswork that never got corrected. Explorers, naturalists ...

Animal-based diets are linked to various bad health outcomes, including increased risk of cancer, vitamin deficiency, heart disease, and obesity, according to Beth Czerwony, MS, RD, LD, a registered ...