The Children's Home Society of North Carolina is actively recruiting families to adopt 9-year-old Ava. She is currently ...

Florida researchers are deploying opossums fitted with tracking collars to locate and remove invasive Burmese pythons threatening native wildlife. The method, developed after discovering python-eaten ...

See this massive 15-foot rat snake that a North Carolina man found in his backyard and discover what they usually eat.

In a controlled but high-risk setting, a king cobra is fed while handlers remain within close proximity. The snake’s speed ...

Some of Florida’s opossums may soon start dying for a noble cause. A few select marsupials fitted with tracking collars may ...

Footage from Python Cave in Uganda shows leopards, monkeys and eagles all feasting on virus-riddled fruit bats. Scientists ...

Researchers filmed 10 species eating or scavenging bats at known Marburg-virus hotspot — and caught hundreds of humans ...

Carl Jackson caught a nearly 17-ft long Burmese python weighing over 200lbs as part of an effort to rid Florida of the ...

Python-derived pTOS shows promise as a side-effect-free appetite suppressant, offering a new path for weight loss and metabolic therapies.

Florida has nearly 50 snake species, but only six are venomous, with four found in the Bay Area. Snake activity increases in spring and summer as they emerge to feed and mate, leading to more human ...

If you were a starving snake in a barren landscape, your most nutritious available lunch may just be another snake. While cannibalism is an absolute taboo to us humans, it’s remarkably widespread in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Burmese pythons are an invasive species in the Florida Everglades where they are decimating some medium-sized mammal species.