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 ...

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The South Florida Water Management District started its second year of the python elimination program. One hunter has stood ...

Eyewitness video showing a federal agent shooting and killing Alex Pretti, 37, in Minneapolis contradicts the Trump administration’s description of events, presenting two starkly different narratives.

Discover Ibu Baron or the Baroness, a reticulated python from Indonesia's Sulawesi that officially became the world's longest ...

A snake has no eyelids, so cannot blink. Its eyes are protected by a fixed type of scale that acts like a contact lens to keep out dust and prevent damage from scratching. Consequently, it sleeps with ...

In 1935, native beetles were wreaking havoc on Australia’s sugar cane crops in Queensland. The beetle larvae lived in the soil and chewed on sugarcane roots, stunting growth or killing the plants.

A Romanian explorer and photographer, Radu Frențiu, found the longest wild snake in the world on an island in the Indonesian ...

There are way more pythons than hunters to remove them in Florida. But the ones that do kill them can be paid full-time by ...

The new year started off with a bang when a python hunter caught a 202-pound female python. That's a lot of meat to eat. But don't do that.

Andrew Baron, a trapper with Redline Iguana Removal, unloads cold-stunned and dead green iguanas from the back of a truck ...

A snakebite healer’s descendant reacted to Nanyah’s death, shared her family’s strange encounters with snakes, and questioned ...