This is the dramatic moment a resident saved his pet cat from being strangled by a huge wild python. The pet owner was cooking rice in his kitchen when he spotted the snake constricting his cat in the ...

Cane toads in Florida secrete a milky-white toxin that can harm or even kill animals that lick, bite or eat them, including ...

Alligator Alcatraz is in Florida, home to dangerous animals that can harm you, like gators, sharks, bears, panthers, snakes ...

What is the safest snake to have as a pet? Will a pet snake bite you? Here are the pros and cons of having a snake for a pet.

Watch a Boelen’s python slide out of its skin with ease. See why shedding is key to a snake’s health—and why you shouldn’t ...

A newly discovered cell helps pythons digest entire skeletons—and might be present in other bone-eating predators, too.

B urmese pythons ( Python bivittatus) don’t believe in waste, digesting not only the muscle and fat of their prey, but the ...

Research into the intestinal cells of Burmese pythons has revealed the existence of a previously unknown cell type, ...

Few predators swallow their prey whole. Even fewer can digest their meals with bones and all. But for some reptiles like the ...

The particles in the cells' crypts, the researchers determined, are excess to the snake's requirements once it has extracted all it needs from the completely dissolved bones. The purpose of the ...

NAPLES, Fla. (WSVN) — The results of the python hunting season are in, and this year, the team at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida broke records after they took down a 17-foot python.