The island of Guam has a snake problem. Though innocuous enough in appearance – slender with brownish or greenish coloration ...

Burmese pythons are unwanted and taking over the Everglades. An estimated half a million of these snakes are decimating the ...

Coming face-to-face with a large snake is enough to make most people freeze. In this short video circulating online, however, two boys do the opposite — stepping in when they see a large python ...

Meet the slow worm slithering across the garden like a tiny liquid shadow. A legless lizard, experts say, that somehow manages to fool everyone. Kids .

Five previously unknown tree-dwelling snake species, including one named in honor of Leonardo DiCaprio's mother, were found ...

A 37-year-old man has been arrested for planting a live snake inside the toilet of a coach of a Mumbai-Solapur train on December 27, 2025. The man has confessed to the crime and said he had done it to ...

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

A 47-year-old man in Moises Padilla died after reportedly experiencing chest pain and breathing difficulty. He allegedly ate ...

Cannibalism in snakes has usually appeared as a footnote rather than a focus. It shows up in old field notebooks, brief case reports, or unexpected moments in captivity. Taken on its own, each record ...

In yet another disturbing but increasingly familiar episode, a failure within one of Nigeria’s most critical systems has led ...

Burmese pythons are unwanted and taking over the Everglades.

A snake has no eyelids, so cannot blink. Its eyes are protected by a fixed type of scale that acts like a contact lens to keep out dust and prevent damage from scratching. Consequently, it sleeps with ...