With hourly fees and per-snake bonuses, python contractors are helping remove invasive constrictors from the Everglades. Here’s what they make ...

Learn how this non-venomous snake with no teeth scares away its enemies by mimicking more deadly snake species.

The Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation (SCCF) reported that there has been no shortage of surprises and changes to ...

Moles are often blamed for tearing up a yard when tunneling to trap their earthworm prey, and the eastern mole kingsnake helps keep moles in check by eating them. North Carolina is home to about 37 ...

When an iguana crawled from a burrowing owl nest, John Johnson picked up his air gun and started a war. The lizards never saw it coming ...

On Sept. 26, 1957, renowned herpetologist and Field Museum curator emeritus Karl Patterson Schmidt died from a snakebite. He documented the process in meticulous, graphic detail.

Meet Alabama’s longest snake: a gentle giant that hunts rattlesnakes, lives in sandy burrows and is protected by law. Have ...

Federal and state programs contract with members of the public to become paid python hunters and combat the invasive snakes ...

Researchers who track the elusive and reviled reptiles were thrilled to witness one of the greedy beasts regurgitating an ...

Following the reading of the verdict, Darnell attempted to console his distraught girlfriend. During the trial, Assistant ...

In a horrifying end to her short life, a two-year-old girl from Florida in the US was strangled in her cot by her mother's ...

At least 260,000 civilians trapped in El Fasher face a dire choice: risk being starved or bombed if they stay, and raped or killed if they flee. By Declan Walsh The reporter reached besieged residents ...