A snake catcher course run by the African Snakebite Institute, based in Pretoria left South Africans stunned after a live ...

Hundreds of people filled the Morgantown Event Center Saturday eager to check out some snakes, crocodiles, tarantulas, ...

As snow settles on the ground and temperatures drop, it’s easy to think most animals are doing what plenty of people do—curling up somewhere warm and waiting out the freeze.

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

A recent study compiled over 500 incidents of cannibalism in more than 200 species of snakes, revealing that the behavior is ...

Researchers have identified Yakacoatl tlalli as a nonvenomous, subterranean new snake species from the Balsas River basin.

New Jersey is home to two venomous snakes, the Timber Rattlesnake and the Northern Copperhead. Here's where copperheads can ...

Saharan Africa, over 300,000 people are envenomed each year, leading to over 7,000 deaths and almost twice as many ...

Researchers Bruna Falcão and Omar Entiauspe-Neto have noticed that hundreds of snake species are more cannibalistic than previously thought. The majority of cannibalistic snakes are found in the ...

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