By snatching chloroplasts from algae, animals called sacoglossans produce their own energy through photosynthesis ...

This week, our Wildlife Wednesday reporter, Vinny Mutone, introduces us to an iridescent snake living at the Santa Fe College teaching zoo.

Officers selected the driver for inspection and discovered 39 live pythons hidden inside the tractor-trailer, just after the operator denied the vehicle contained any prohibited goods.

Only then do they strike.

“Python’s Kiss” collects a baker’s dozen stories, nine of which previously have been published in the New Yorker and elsewhere (each is illustrated with a drawing by the author’s daughter, Aza Erdrich ...

Spotting a snake in the garden can startle it as much as it startles you. Here's what you should—and shouldn't—do if you spot a snake in your yard.

All it took was a piece of fermented swordfish the size of a quarter to land an Arizona woman in the hospital with a rare ...

A Florida woman drove straight to a fire station after discovering a python inside her car, where firefighters safely removed the unexpected passenger.

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.

Reptiles shed their skin, but not all of them do so equally. Discover the differences between snakes and amphibians when it ...

Asian swamp eels are spreading through the Everglades and decimating crayfish populations, leading to comparisons with ...