An insider's look at Florida’s war on invaders: the giant snakes, egg-eating predators and parasites spreading through the ...

My guide, Thai American snake expert Christopher Shannon, caught it in the beam of his flashlight, the snake’s chartreuse ...

Invasive reptiles may be quietly altering how plants regenerate, moving seeds across the Everglades and complicating efforts ...

A red ruffed lemur escaped from an Amsterdam zoo and crossed several roads and tram tracks before take shelter in a tree.

For more than 20 years, scientists treated ghrelin as the body’s master hunger switch. A new look at snake genomes suggests ...

The Key Largo woodrat has survived in the tropical hammocks of a narrow Florida island for thousands of years. It builds ...

An Ohio man found an old, non-winning lottery ticket in his car and decided to give the numbers another shot -- a decision ...

From a brand-new trail at Princess Vlei to the famous duck parade in Stellenbosch, here are seven animal encounters and ...

A hyena is no easy target, with powerful jaws and a reputation for holding its own against lions and leopards, yet one ...

Hunters participating in the Florida Python Challenge in July will have an abundance of python meet. But it is advised that ...

Snakes have one of the strangest and most shocking feeding styles in the animal kingdom. Unlike mammals, they do not tear their food into pieces or chew it before swallowing. Instead, many snakes use ...