Carl Jackson caught a nearly 17-ft long Burmese python weighing over 200lbs as part of an effort to rid Florida of the invasive snake.

New Jersey is a densely populated state, but it also hides some of the Northeast’s rarest snakes. They live in pine forests, rocky hillsides, and along farm edges, even as people drive and build all

When it comes to food consumption, snakes skip the whole chewing bit and swallow their meals whole. But sometimes their eyes are bigger than their stomachs, and the prey comes right back up. This startling Instagram video shows what appears to be a python regurgitating a full-sized bird.

If you grew up on nature documentaries, you probably have “snake = scary predator” wired into your brain. But out in the real world, snakes are very much on the menu. Birds stomp them. Mammals chew them. Other reptiles and even other snakes hunt them ...

Connecticut is home to a wide variety of snakes. Meet reptile lovers protecting the valuable animals