If you saw a snake in your backyard, would you know if it was venomous? Sure, it's easy to tell a rattler from a rat snake, but other species are harder to identify. To give us some pointers, the ...

TUSCALOOSA, ALA. – On a cold, gray winter day, Stephen Secor pulled into the driveway of David and Amber Nelson, who welcomed him into their basement filled with stacks of refrigerator-size, ...

The World Health Organization estimates that as many as 5.4 million people are bitten by snakes each year. Snakebite injuries leave around 400,000 people permanently disabled or disfigured. Between 80 ...

A "huge" and "well-fed" black mamba has been caught after setting up home by an informal settlement near Durban, South Africa, where dozens of people were living. Nick Evans, who rescues snakes in the ...

A “human snake” teenager who sheds her skin every six weeks because of an ultra-rare condition is set to get life-improving treatment in Europe. Shalini Yadav, 16, needs to constantly smear her body ...

The federal government needs to significantly ratchet up its efforts and its funding to eradicate the brown tree snake on Guam. The invasive species decimated the island’s indigenous bird population, ...

Wild animals have a dispersal period where young move on to new ground to establish their own home range. This is nature’s way of mixing the gene pool. It also allows for species to reoccupy small, ...