Hundreds of millions of animals are killed on our roads each year. Now, scientists have revealed how these deaths could play an unexpected role advancing wildlife science and conservation.

A man calmly restrains a large python during a tense encounter, drawing attention for his steady handling of the snake.

Ball pythons (Python regius) have developed a distinctive defensive behavior that has become their namesake characteristic. When threatened or stressed, these snakes curl their bodies into a tight ...

A silver Toyota pickup rolled toward the outbound lanes at the Anzalduas International Bridge like any other southfacing car on the Texas border. To Customs and Border Patrol officers, it didn’t look ...

At the Anzaldúas International Bridge in Mission, Texas, agents stopped a silver pickup truck carrying 163 live reptiles and arthropods, including snakes, frogs, lizards, and tarantulas — all believed ...

This one is a big NOPE for me. I’m glad that federal agents in Texas were there to seize about 163 tarantulas, pythons, centipedes, and other reptiles at the border. The exotic pets were being ...

Lizards and frogs and snakes, oh my! More than 160 creepy-crawlers — including tarantulas, centipedes, and two dozen pythons — were confiscated from a truck trying to cross the Texas border into ...

SAN ANTONIO — Twenty-four royal pythons, 11 spotted salamanders, four tarantulas, three bearded dragons—that's just some of the dozens and dozens of reptiles that U.S. Customs and Border Protection ...

Umama Ali spent more time as a kid arguing with his brother over who caused the most chaos in GTA Vice City than doing homework, and he’s been unapologetically hooked on games ever since. That ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. More than 4,200 species of snakes exist on the planet and ...