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 ...

A silent disaster is unfolding in the Florida Everglades. An invasive giant snake, the Burmese python, has triggered a near total collapse of native wildlife, wiping out mammals, birds, and even young ...

Join the tour! Meet a Burmese Python, Water Monitor Rusty, and gators Darth and Gomer at the reptile zoo. See Rusty eat squid and watch the gators battle over octopus!

Cozy climate and other factors align in Florida to make the state Earth’s playground for the most established, invasive ...

Python hunters have nothing to be afraid of when it comes to venom and pythons. They are not venomous. But they have very sharp teeth.

Scientists undertook the first comprehensive assessment of how often snakes eat their own, uncovering reports of the behavior ...

A dramatic video shows how python hunter Carl Jackson wrestled with a 200-pound snake that he estimates dragged him 10-15 feet.

We'd like to welcome this curious armless burrowing lizard into the New Species Hall of Fame. Despite being built for life underground, in the end this slider skink was no match for scientists who had ...

This mysterious lizard had hooked, snake-like teeth for hunting down prey 167 million years ago, a new study has found. The newly discovered species is named Breugnathair elgolensis, which means ...

His snake eyes were bigger than his stomach. Florida might have a new ally in the ongoing fight against the invasive Burmese python scourge — chilly weather. Researchers who track the elusive and ...

Ever wondered whether painting a cow with zebra stripes might reduce the number of fly bites it gets, or which pizza toppings different kinds of lizards prefer? If so, you’re not alone: There are ...

They look, move and even smell like the kind of furry Everglades marsh rabbit a Burmese python would love to eat. But these bunnies are robots meant to lure the giant invasive snakes out of their ...