A pet boa constrictor named Pedro made a break for it Palm Beach County when his owner's wife went into labor.

When the results from skin tests came back, they revealed snake fungal disease, caused by Ophidiomyces ophidiicola, an ...

A snake that looks similar to and sounds like a rattlesnake but isn't a rattlesnake? Meet the gopher snake, the biggest snake found in Arizona.

Before pythons and anacondas, 47-foot giants slithered through steamy rainforests. These prehistoric snakes redefined what ...

A study analyzed 503 documented cases of serpent cannibalism and found that the behavior can be seen in different snakes ...

North Carolina doesn’t have any officially “snake-infested” lakes. But if you spend time around freshwater wetlands, rivers, ...

"This snake could easily swallow at least a calf, if not an adult cow," an explorer and natural history photographer said of the python Desiree Anello is a Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been ...

When we think of animal communication, barking dogs, singing birds, or even the complex vocalizations of whales might come to mind. Snakes, however, tend to be overlooked in conversations about animal ...

Florida incentivizes hunters to eliminate invasive Burmese pythons through programs offering cash rewards. The invasive snakes, numbering in the tens of thousands, disrupt the Everglades ecosystem by ...