What begins as a simple tour of African reptiles quickly turns into a full showcase of some of the strangest and most impressive animals in the collection. Giant rock pythons, massive monitor lizards, ...

Hunters entering Florida's yearly Python Challenge are once again helping the state thin out invasive snakes in the ...

Reticulated pythons can take down large mammals, such as wild boar, deer and dogs, but sometimes the tables turn.

A Canadian citizen wanted to take a royal python out of the Netherlands, which was found in her bra before boarding a plane ...

These snakes can go for months without eating, grow and shrink the size of their hearts and jump start their metabolism on a ...

The African Snakebite Institute has noted that these snakes seldom attack people and that fatalities are "virtually unheard ...

Registration is open for the 2026 Florida Python Challenge, a 10-day competition aimed at removing invasive Burmese pythons ...

Before we leave our discussion of the joys of summer, tribute should be paid to that miracle of climatic adaptation, the Sonoran Desert Stick Lizard. The little stretch of desert where I live is ...

World Snake Day is July 16, and it leads me to recall a frantic knocking at my door a couple of years ago. My next-door ...

Venom: The Last Dance may be weeks away, but there’s an awful lot we don’t know about the third entry in this Marvel series. Thanks to the final trailer, we’ve only just learned that the symbiote god ...

If you’re a Tucsonan of a certain age, you might have fond childhood memories of catching horned lizards out in the desert. You also might be wondering where all the horny toads have gone. You’re not ...