Burmese pythons are an invasive species established across more than a thousand square miles of South Florida, including ...

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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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CLEARWATER, Fla. — A Florida woman got quite the surprise when she found a snake slithering across the hood of her car. Clearwater Police responded promptly to the scene and safely removed the snake.

“They are the ones that have to be able to strike as quickly as possible,” says Alistair Evans, a zoologist at Monash University in Melbourne. It typically takes mammals between 60 to 400 milliseconds ...

High-speed video helped researchers to get close-ups of the attack strategies of three snake families. By Ari Daniel Venomous snakes inhabit a different perceptual world than we do. “Before the mammal ...

A recent influx of heavy rain in Florida has forced venomous snakes to flee their natural habitats and retreat toward drier ground – encroaching on unsuspecting residents, according to a report.

Ohio is home to three rare venomous snakes: the timber rattlesnake, the copperhead, and the massasauga rattlesnake. The timber rattlesnake and massasauga rattlesnake are both endangered species in ...