Professional python hunter needed his family’s help to wrest the second-heaviest invasive Burmese python on record out of the swamp.

It was like riding a slow horse,” said Carl Jackson, a full-time Burmese python hunter with the Florida Fish and Wildlife ...

Scientists confirm a record-breaking green anaconda in the Amazon, revealing new species clues, surprising sizes, invasive risks, and unanswered questions about even larger snakes still hidden within ...

The discovery of Vasuki indicus has reignited debate about the true limits of snake size. Based on fossil vertebrae, ...

Black racer snakes are known to be fast, with some reaching speeds of 8-10 mph, which is a pretty good clip, especially for a ...

The longest snake native to North America is the Eastern indigo snake, which can reach lengths of almost nine feet. While Eastern indigo snakes were historically found in parts of Louisiana, they are ...

King Cobra was considered the largest venomous snake to have ever roamed the face of the Earth. Due to its enormous length, ...

Modern anacondas and pythons are massive, but fossil evidence shows they are not even close to the largest snakes to ever ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alabama's lands are crawling with 49 species of snakes. Six are venomous, and the rest won't bother you. One snake stands out, not ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. In the humid swamps of what is now Colombia, there was once ...

A woman in the 800 block of Fourth Lane called 911 after she went outside and the massive snake, which turned out to be a red ...