Opossums are being used to fight invasive Burmese pythons in Florida. Here's how researchers are doing it and pythons ...

Researchers are using tracking collars on opossums to find the invasive Burmese pythons in Florida. We explain how it's done.

Opossums could soon become weaponized against invasive Burmese pythons in Florida. Researchers want to fit 40 opossums with ...

Canada. In the process, animal welfare groups and the Canadian Federation of Humane Societies are again calling for stronger provincial laws to limit or ban the import and sale of exotic species. In ...

When most people try to picture the largest venomous snake in the world, the king cobra comes to mind almost immediately.

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

Snakes and other reptiles often get a bad reputation, but local reptile keeper Jeffry Evans says much of that fear comes from ...

Mistaken euthanasia during a python crackdown led to graphic scenes new state rules and a long legal fight over a rare ...

Which animal kills the most humans in a year? From dogs to mosquitos, here are the top 10 most deadly creatures on Earth.

A 34-million-year-old fossil found in Wyoming has upended what scientists thought they knew about snake evolution and ...

A small fossil snake may hold outsized clues about snake evolution, behavior, and an ancient ecosystem that looked nothing ...