A hyena is no easy target, with powerful jaws and a reputation for holding its own against lions and leopards, yet one ...

A Florida man was hailed as a hero for catching an 8-foot-long invasive python, and then fined for it. Where is it legal to kill them?

Last year, Taylor Stanberry caught 60 Burmese pythons with her bares hands—a state record. But this self-taught hunter says she doesn't enjoy killing the snakes, she just knows it's a necessity.

According to the Bible, the world’s first con man was a snake. It deceived Adam and Eve, leading them to commit the first sin, which is how we wound up living in this messed-up world we have now. I ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Biologists with the Conservancy of Southwest Florida holding a 17-foot, 148 lb female python they captured in an armadillo burrow ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is Africa's deep-wild heart-where the Congo Basin rainforest shelters iconic endemics like bonobos and okapi, and where Virunga's misty volcanoes still hold ...

This story appears in the March 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Selfie of Naruto taken in June 2011. Photograph by David J. Slater If it weren’t for a cheeky monkey named Naruto, who, as ...

Today:Early fog in the far southwest clears quickly. Most areas stay dry with sunshine and variable cloud, though northern and northeastern regions may see isolated showers. Light winds overall, ...

Most people think the Jersey Shore is just about beaches and boardwalk (we’ll ignore traffic on the Parkway and endless waits ...