Snakes may be feared, but many animals hunt them. Explore how predators adapt to venom, speed, and defense to shape ...

Forget fluffy puppies and purring kittens; some people have a fondness for the truly peculiar when it comes to their animal ...

The SPCA is on the trail of a man seen in a viral video allegedly selling a live snake, raising urgent legal and animal ...

After years of self-administering jerry-rigged antivenom and getting outright bitten by snakes, Tim Friede has a ...

North Carolina doesn’t have any officially “snake-infested” lakes. But if you spend time around freshwater wetlands, rivers, and lakes — especially in the eastern part of the state — you’re very ...

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Animal Welfare Act 2006, a landmark statute that codified the main legal protections for animals in England and Wales. Yet, while the Act has been ...

Quick Take Brown tree snakes are invasive in Guam, depressing populations of native wildlife by eating lizards, birds, and small mammals. Introduced from ship cargos in the 1950s, these venomous ...

Birds are some of the most diverse animals in nature, coming in all different colors. Birds come in a wide range of colors, ...

“Most people are well meaning, but they buy exotic animals which need specialist care and they can’t cope. People might buy a boa constrictor as a foot long baby and then it grows to 12 feet.” ...

A nearly complete 90-million-year-old dinosaur fossil from Patagonia, Alnashetri, reveals how alvarezsaurs evolved and shrank over time.

"Online platforms can also glamorize the ease of keeping exotic pets, often misleading people about the reality of keeping them." ...

The 90-million-year-old fossil of a tiny bird-like dinosaur has rewritten history, say scientists. They described the ...