It takes a lot to give professional snake wranglers the creeps, but it happened when a group of hunters captured a python plagued by blood-sucking ticks in Florida’s Everglades. If there’s ...

Sometimes snakes eat the darnedest things. Robert Siegel talks with veterinarian Barry Rathfon, who assisted this week in removing a queen-sized electric blanket from the stomach of Houdini, a 12 ...

There’s no evidence to show that the trade in blood pythons from Indonesia, coveted for their skins for making luxury fashion items, is sustainable, a new study shows. In fact, the evidence ...

A woman found the snake close to where her cats and kittens normally slept in Brisbane, Australia—but the pets were nowhere to be seen.

NEW YORK (AP) — Tim Friede has been bitten by snakes hundreds of times — often on purpose. Now scientists are studying his blood in hopes of creating a better treatment for snake bites.