Megan O'Shaughnessy's research targets safer ways to treat venomous snakebites, offering hope to patients who can’t safely ...

Hundreds of non-native animal & plant species live in Florida. They prey on native critters & damage native ecosystems.

Venomous snakes produce some of the world’s deadliest substances, so they have to be pretty careful about how they use it.

Initially established in Everglades National Park in the early 1980s, Burmese pythons quickly put a stranglehold on Florida's ...

Things can get complicated when we refer to “brown snakes.” Brown snakes can mean snakes that are colored brown. However, ...

Frigid temperatures have made their to Florida. Here's how the cold weather impacts the invasive Burmese python.

Six snake species in Florida can kill you, but few people have died in 20 years. Still, researchers say we need to learn more ...

A customer was at a Pollo Tropical drive-thru when the snake incident took place Latoya Gayle joined PEOPLE as an Associate Editor in 2024. Her work has previously appeared in The U.S. Sun, National ...

CLEARWATER, Fla. — A Florida woman got quite the surprise when she found a snake slithering across the hood of her car. Clearwater Police responded promptly to the scene and safely removed the snake.

“They are the ones that have to be able to strike as quickly as possible,” says Alistair Evans, a zoologist at Monash University in Melbourne. It typically takes mammals between 60 to 400 milliseconds ...

High-speed video helped researchers to get close-ups of the attack strategies of three snake families. By Ari Daniel Venomous snakes inhabit a different perceptual world than we do. “Before the mammal ...

A recent influx of heavy rain in Florida has forced venomous snakes to flee their natural habitats and retreat toward drier ground – encroaching on unsuspecting residents, according to a report.