The yellow-bellied slider is a semiaquatic turtle, native to southeastern United States, where it is the most common turtle species. As the name suggests, they have a yellow belly that is buried under ...

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

This is the heartwarming moment a group of fishermen rescued a python that was stranded in the open sea. Boat captain Thanakorn Manyuen, 29, and his colleagues spotted the 13ft (4m) reticulated python ...

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A record-breaking freeze this month sent Florida wildlife into shock. Some of those animals were native, some were invasive.

Scale matters as much as behavior. When a reproducing invasive species occupies broad habitat and remains hard to census, the system does not settle quickly. It keeps producing fresh overlap zones ...

The South Florida Water Management District started its second year of the python elimination program. One hunter has stood ...

A professional snake hunter had his hands full earlier this month, as he grappled with the second-heaviest Burmese python ever caught in Florida. Carl Jackson, 43, was dragged 10 to 15 feet over red ...

Watching a snake poop may not be everyone’s idea of fun, but it can tell us a lot about snake digestion, which is a fascinating subject. In this extraordinary Instagram post, a snake is taking a poop, ...

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 ...