Snakes and other reptiles often get a bad reputation, but local reptile keeper Jeffry Evans says much of that fear comes from ...

On that front, “The Python Hunt” undeniably delivers. Xander Robin’s directorial debut follows the participants in a uniquely ...

It’s a really cool experience in Sioux Falls for families and individuals and just everyone that likes animals and nature.” ...

Docile, furry and cute to some, possums have become an unexpected ally in the effort to slow the invasion of Burmese pythons, ...

Pythons are spreading north in Florida, adapting to cold by using burrows. Scientists warn Brevard County is at risk.

Rousseau was long known in France as “le douanier”, or the customs officer, the name given to him by young painters and ...

One python hunter, Anthony Flanagan, had a busy March eliminating the invasive snakes. He was rewarded by the South Florida ...

Prices are higher, snakes are crawling & our friends at the NWS have some thoughts. Here’s what The N&O’s service team was up ...

Red-necked keelback snakes are highly toxic—mere drops of their pungent yellow poison could blind a mongoose and stop its heart within minutes. But the snakes don’t make that toxin themselves; rather, ...

As a long and wiry scrub python slithers its way from branch to branch on a tree, it can effortlessly lift itself upright to climb onto a higher perch. But how does it do it? With no arms and legs to ...

Like most North American viperids, copperheads prefer to avoid humans and, when given the opportunity, will leave an area of humans without incident, according to the National Park Service. Picasa ...

This video examines the size and weight of some of the largest reptiles in the collection. Handlers carefully measure and weigh a massive constrictor stretching close to twenty feet in length. The ...