At its core, Zootopia 2 is a defense of snakes. The Oscar-nominated sequel to Zootopia centers on an unlikely pair of animal police officers—Judy Hopps, a rabbit, and her fox partner, Nick Wilde—who ...

Snakes have lost the gene that encodes ghrelin, a hormone that helps regulate hunger in many vertebrates, according to a new study.

Snakes have a lot of reasons for wanting to be in your house, and it's up to you to find them so they can be removed. There are many places they may hang out.

Animals across diverse species, from crocodiles to birds and even young sea lions, intentionally swallow stones, a practice known as gastrolith ingestion. These stones aid digestion by grinding tough ...

Earth may not host kaiju-level behemoth snakes like Titanoboa or Vasuki anymore, but it still has some pretty large specimens ...

Animals are noisy. And their noises can travel a long way. But making sounds can be a double-edged sword: it can help them communicate, sometimes over long distances, but it can also reveal them to ...

Fossil reveals that a giant python over 4 meters long once lived in Taiwan. The discovery rewrites the island's natural history.

Florida firefighters jumped into action when a driver arrived at their station with a python hiding inside her vehicle ...

The South Florida Water Management District is in its second year of managing a Python Removal Program. Winners win cash prizes.

Researchers suggest that predation by a subspecies called Bigg's orcas might explain why members of another one, called ...

From tool-using chimpanzees to puzzle-solving capuchins, the primate world is packed with surprising brainpower. But how do the planet’s cleverest monkeys and apes really compare with human intelligen ...

When it comes to tackling invasive species in South Florida, it's not just about spotting and removing. A group of University ...