Pythons can tolerate saltwater and freshwater and have been observed swimming in Florida Bay and Biscayne Bay.

Touring the home of Savvy Reptiles reveals a wide variety of reptiles and amphibians. It’s also the home of Blake and Savanna ...

The king cobra is the longest venomous snake alive today, but it is not the largest venomous snake to have ever existed.

The Center for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife on Sanibel kicks off its annual speaker series with a python elimination expert ...

Snake catcher Viviean Laycock has been bitten twice - once by a red-bellied black and once by a tiger snake - and yet she ...

A tiger appeared without warning, gliding like a shadow along the forest edge as a boat drifted through the Periyar waters. For a 13-year-old boy visiting Kerala in 1957, the moment was electrifying.

KATHMANDU – When Bimala Bote of Ratnanagar Municipality in Chitwan stepped out of her mud house at around midnight on November 21, she went to check on some noise that sounded like an animal dragging ...

Burmese pythons, one of the largest snake species in the world, could be the most destructive invasive animal in Florida Everglades history. They can swim, burrow and climb trees, and they eat almost ...

A 15-year-old first spotted the snake hanging out in the ceiling above a toilet in their home Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. More than 4,200 species of snakes exist on the planet and ...

Florida couple Christina Kraus and Aaron Mann captured 87 invasive pythons from the Everglades in July, setting that month’s record and netting them thousands of dollars in payouts for helping remove ...