Across South Florida, giant snakes that once seemed like exotic escapees are now entrenched residents, reshaping ecosystems ...

More than 100 million years ago, the ancestors of the first snakes were small lizards that lived alongside other small, nondescript lizards in the shadow of the dinosaurs. More than 100 million years ...

Snakes have adapted to climb trees, leap across hot sand, and even swim through water — all without arms or legs. What’s their secret? Mike Bock This corn snake, shown here at the Smithsonian's ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Since first appearing during the age of dinosaurs, snakes have authored an evolutionary success story - slithering into almost every habitat on Earth, from oceans to tree tops.

An illegally-owned 13-foot Burmese python was seized from a home in central New York state last week, officials said. On Aug. 28, an officer with the New York State Department of Environmental ...

Monkeys exhibited an immediate response to images of snakes and salamanders with snake skin, but not to images of salamanders without scale. Dr. Nobuyuki Kawai from Nagoya University in Japan has ...

The snake has been donated to Fort Rickey Discovery Zoo in Rome, N.Y. NYS Department of Environmental Conservation/Facebook A 13-foot python was seized from a N.Y. home A 13-foot snake was seized from ...

A 13-foot snake was seized from a home in August and donated to a zoo after the snake's owner admitted he wasn't prepared for how fast the snake would grow. Per a post on Facebook Tuesday, Sept. 3, by ...