Burmese pythons, one of the largest snakes in the world, are best known for the way they catch and eat their food. The snake uses its sharp rearward-pointing teeth to seize prey, and then coils its ...

A haunting twilight world of dark waters, flesh-eating plants and North America's largest free-roaming predators, Okefenokee Swamp has a strong claim to be one of the US's last great wildernesses.

As we are in National Heritage Week, my mind naturally turns to those more Jamaican than myself, those who lived on this ...

A South Florida crocodile may be the first in the state known to have died from lead poisoning after 23 air-rifle pellets, a fishing weight, and other lead fragments were found in its stomach.

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Harrowing video shows a crocodile handler desperately clinging to the side of a pool as the hulking predator grabs onto his legs and drags him into the water. The worker was trying to feed the croc a ...

After almost 30 years working with snakes, Brian encounters something he'd only ever seen in pictures: a snake swallowing its own body. Unsure how to intervene, he eventually gets the snake to release ...

The Florida Python Challenge is an annual competition to remove invasive Burmese pythons. Tom Rahill won the $10,000 grand prize for removing 96 pythons. The longest python caught during the ...

A man visiting Puerto Vallarta was killed by a crocodile Friday night, prompting warnings from other tourists about safety in the Mexican beach town. According to Jalisco state authorities, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Closeup of a Southern African Rock Python yawning, opening her mouth© Boris Mayer/Shutterstock.com The post This Massive Snake ...

Snakes have one of the strangest and most shocking feeding styles in the animal kingdom. Unlike mammals, they do not tear their food into pieces or chew it before swallowing. Instead, many snakes use ...