Stumbling across a cluster of small white eggs in your garden can be surprising and even a little unsettling. Tucked beneath ...

A Florida pizzeria owner is redefining the term “exotic pet trade” by accepting captured Burmese pythons as payment for a pie. “I’m the first place in the world to accept python as currency,” Dustin ...

We are almost halfway through the 2026 Florida Python Challenge, which means plenty of snakes have likely already been ...

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 ...

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

Visitors can also purchase interesting items from consumer stalls set up as part of the pet show, both inside and outside ...

The annual Florida Python Challenge is set to begin. Starting at 12:01 a.m. ET July 10 and concluding at 5 p.m. July 19, ...

Exactly one minute after midnight tonight, hundreds of hunters will fan out across the Florida Everglades with a single mission: track down and remove as many invasive Burmese pythons as possible. The ...

I had come here on an excursion with Bangkok Herping, a new walking-tour outfit that swaps the Thai capital city’s ...

Florida's annual effort to tackle one of the world's most notorious invasive species is returning this July, but wildlife ...

A group of creatures called “herptiles” received a lot of attention during an event in Kirtland on June 28. That’s because Lake Metroparks Penitentiary Glen Reservation hosted “Snakes, Turtles and ...

An insider's look at Florida’s war on invaders: the giant snakes, egg-eating predators and parasites spreading through the ...