Entomologist Vijayakumar Blathur breaks down the connection between snakes and the rising heat. He says snakes, being ...

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

This Instagram post of a Burmese python eating a 77-pound white-tailed deer is quite horrifying. It teaches us a lot about the power of these incredible but invasive reptiles. At the same time, it ...

Dopasia formosensis in natural habitat: a relatively young male. The Formosan legless lizard is a medium-sized reptile that lacks external limbs. Adult males typically have a body length between 175 ...

Better hope you don’t get bit by any of these venomous snakes. Top row: Robert Hamilton/Alamy; Wiki Commons; Sam Yue/Alamy. Middle row: Scott Travers; Design Pics Inc/Alamy; Dimitry Orlov/Alamy.

A python hunter captured a nearly 17-foot, 202-pound snake in the Florida Everglades. While it is legal to eat python meat in Florida, health officials strongly advise against it. Testing has revealed ...

The convention lets reptile breeders and educators show off a wide variety of scaly cold-blooded creatures. Most of them for sale--along with pet reptile accessories. The convention lets reptile ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (Reuters) - The fossil of a small reptile that inhabited Scotland during the age of dinosaurs 167 million years ago has scientists puzzled. It mixed snake-like traits and lizard-like ...

A strange Jurassic lizard discovered on Scotland’s Isle of Skye is shaking up what we know about snake evolution. Named Breugnathair elgolensis, the “false snake of Elgol” combined hook-like, ...

When paleontologists only have so many clues to infer a fossil’s original form, it’s all too easy to make honest mistakes. Sometimes, supposedly reasonable assumptions set researchers on the wrong ...

The opening pages of the 1943 book The Little Prince recall how the narrator, as a child, once drew a picture not of a hat — as every adult insisted it was — but of a boa constrictor that had ...

This mysterious lizard had hooked, snake-like teeth for hunting down prey 167 million years ago, a new study has found. The newly discovered species is named Breugnathair elgolensis, which means ...