Researchers attach tracking devices to three-pound opossums, allowing them to track and capture pythons who eat them.

As temperatures rise across Georgia, so do encounters with snakes. State herpetologist Daniel Sollenberger is fielding an ...

Florida alligators are opportunistic feeders with a wide-ranging diet. Invasive Burmese pythons are on the gator menu.

Snakes have attracted many scientists due to their unique ability to survive. One of the unique characteristics of snakes is ...

Burmese pythons are fairly distinct once they reach adulthood. But smaller members of the species can be mistaken for native ...

Have any humans have been killed by Burmese pythons? What to know Florida's large, invasive residents and their ...

An African bullfrog displays its effective puffing and hopping defenses against a highly venomous boomslang snake.

"Pythons are large-body snakes. They are constrictors. That means they're going to coil around their food in order to eat," ...

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

Some of Florida’s opossums may soon start dying for a noble cause. A few select marsupials fitted with tracking collars may ...

Docile, furry and cute to some, possums have become an unexpected ally in the effort to slow the invasion of Burmese pythons, a snake that has decimated ecosystems in Florida.

A Sunshine Coast snake catching page has posted “one of the worst cases of animal cruelty [they’ve] ever seen”, urging for laws to be changed after observing “at least one case of snake animal cruelty ...