This large python has found an antelope. After squeezing it to death, he starts to swallow it, only he has found himself in ...

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

After 12 years of tracking and hunting Burmese pythons in South Florida, it takes a lot to get Ian Bartoszek riled. A wildlife biologist and the science coordinator for the Conservancy of Southwest ...

No one should be surprised that among her many talents, Amy Siewe can draw a crowd. On Feb. 5 Siewe spent a rare day away from the Everglades where she hunts the invasive and destructive Burmese ...

A study of more than 100 kindergarten-age children suggests kids tend to think of snakes differently than they do other animals and that hearing negative or objectifying language about the slithery ...

The language children hear about snakes may shape their fear and attitudes, but simple exposure can soften that effect.

Snakes "smell" with their forked tongues, collecting scent particles to analyze with their Jacobson's organ. Snakes don't have external ears. They sense vibrations through their jawbone and inner ear.

Credit: Craig Cordier / Shutterstock.) Snakes are scary! Or are they? Of the roughly 4,000 snake species in the world, no more than 15 percent are venomous. And unless you live in tropical wilds, your ...