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

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 ...

A Miami man was fined for wrangling an invasive python in Everglades National Park without a permit. The man's citation was later dismissed in court because it was improperly written. Killing Burmese ...

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, ...

Autumn is an independent journalist and educator who writes about climate, wildlife, biodiversity, and environmental justice and policy. The orca, or killer whale (Orcinus orca), is a curious ...

Snakes are no strangers to superlatives, but in the wild, size records are notoriously difficult to verify. Most exceptionally large specimens are reported anecdotally, killed before they can be ...

The largest python ever recorded demonstrated how extreme growth is biologically possible in constrictor snakes Unlike venomous species pythons rely on muscular coils to suffocate prey before ...

Burmese pythons are unwanted and taking over the Everglades. An estimated half a million of these snakes are decimating the natural ecosystem by eating the native mammals like deer, bobcats, squirrels ...