It is a wonder-filled, sometimes puzzling, and even shocking world out there in the animal kingdom. One of those kickoff ...

Tracking a single male python through protected wetlands led biologists to one of the largest breeding females captured this year.

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

One of the strange, small reptiles living within the giant deserts of Southern Africa is the barking gecko. It is strange to ...

The origins of Florida’s python crisis lie in the exotic pet trade of the 1980s and 1990s. These snakes were initially sold ...

A new study published in Science shows that these plants—called cycads—use infrared radiation from heat as a signal to ...

South Florida researchers warn the Everglades face an Asian swamp eel invasion, depleting small fish and starving wading birds, threatening the wetland food web.

A Florida man encountered a nearly 12-foot-long Burmese python — an invasive species — in the road while coming home from ...

Pest control experts are warning the public about a newly discovered invasive coin-marked snake species in Malta that could ...

Evidence suggests pythons may be evolving to tolerate colder climates farther north. These invasive snakes are primarily established in South Florida, south of Lake Okeechobee. As sections of the ...

Burmese pythons are an invasive species causing destruction in the Florida Everglades. The snakes have contributed to the decline of several small mammal populations. Estimates place the Burmese ...