A Michigan State Police trooper fatally shot a nearly 7-foot long Burmese python that slithered onto a road and was spotted lunging at a passing pickup truck.
Motorist Brian Ahlin called 911 Monday after seeing the snake in the middle of the road, just a few feet from a park. Ahlin says the snake tried [...]
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There’s a reason the saying ‘never work with children or animals’ was coined, as a terrified TV weatherman found out.
Weatherman Kurtis Gertz put on a fixed-yet-terrified grin as a python started to slither inside his shorts on US television.
It had all started so well. The KCCI-TV presenter first appeared with the 10ft long [...]
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An animal shelter’s mascot — a rare two-headed turtle — was the star of a newspaper article on Monday, but it was stolen from its tank before the article ran.
The turtle was taken Sunday evening, hours after the Daily News reporter left, said Sean Casey, owner of the Sean Casey Animal Rescue and neighboring pet [...]
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A man in Scotland was shocked to discover a three foot long snake in the boot of his car.
Gordon Eikman, 52, from Macmerry East Lothian was clearing out his car when he thought he had spotted a toy snake.
“I was just emptying some stuff out of a car and I thought I saw a rubber [...]
Opening ceremonies for the Olympics were held last Friday, but a different kind of Olympics has been running in Hong Kong since June.
It’s the first ever “Olympets.”
Hong Kong’s largest pet store is hosing the “Olympets” where about four hundred dogs, rodents and birds are competing.
A few of the events include dog track and [...]
In the last 60 years, brown tree snakes have become the embodiment of the bad things that can happen when invasive species are introduced in places where they have few predators. Unchecked for many years, the snakes caused the extinction of nearly every native bird species on the Pacific island of Guam.
A variety of other [...]
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In this arid river valley in southeastern Alberta, Adam Martinson is trying to find out why rattlesnakes cross the road.
Martinson, a University of Calgary student working on a Masters degree has come to Dinosaur Provincial Park, listed as a United Nations World Heritage site, to study why snakes slither onto — and too frequently [...]
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By examining the genetics of snake embryos, researchers have solved a long-standing evolutionary mystery regarding the evolution of fangs on venomous snakes. Researchers have been puzzled because the fangs, which are syringe-like teeth that draw poison from venom glands, have very different placement in different species. Most venomous snakes, including grass snakes, have fangs positioned [...]
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Scientists have identified the world’s smallest snake — a reptile about 4 inches long and as thin as spaghetti that was found lurking under a rock on the Caribbean island of Barbados.
The new species, named Leptotyphlops carlae, is smaller than any of the other 3,100 previously known snake species, according to Pennsylvania State University biologist [...]
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It has long been debated whether dinosaurs were part of the ‘Terrestrial Revolution’ that occurred some 100 million years ago during the Cretaceous when birds, mammals, flowering plants, insects and reptiles all underwent a rapid expansion.
An international study, led by the University of Bristol, shows that during their last 50 million years of existence, dinosaurs [...]
