A Rhode Island woman woke up to an atypical intruder in her home one morning. It wasn't a burglar, but a pet snake that a previous resident had lost months earlier.

New Hampshire's lake country may seem idyllic, but even its most beloved swimming spots have surprises lurking along the ...

A few years ago, the owner of a house in Georgia captured an epic battle between a brown widow spider and a brown snake. Black widows are widely known as one of the most dangerous on Earth, but in ...

Very few things are scarier than stumbling across a venomous snake on your hike or outdoor stroll, so here are some places where you can avoid that feeling.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimates less than a thousand ghost orchids are left in the United States.

As with coyotes, which have moved into suburban areas in Florida in recent years, pythons can prey on invasive Muscovy ducks, pigeons and iguanas, but also on native animals such as rats, raccoons, ...

The poachers weren’t intimidated by heat, lightning, mosquitoes, venomous snakes, alligators or losing their way in the South ...

The ghost orchid is a plant so elusive it’s likened to an Everglades apparition. Estimates show its population declining in ...

Wood storks crack open their beaks slightly and swing it back and forth in the water to find frogs, crayfish, snakes, snails ...

HOMESTEAD, Fla. - A Florida driver waiting in line at a Pollo Tropical drive-thru got more than what he bargained for on Monday. "I was in the driver-thru line for Pollo Tropical when I saw a snake ...

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement reports drug-related deaths dropped 14% statewide in 2024. Opioid deaths fell 32%, and fentanyl deaths dropped 35%. Still, more than 4,000 people died from ...

Jacksonville, Fl — A federal lawsuit over an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades, known as “Alligator Alcatraz,” has been paused by an appellate court because of the government ...