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 ...

“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.

Heavy rainfall across Florida’s Space Coast is leading to an uptick in encounters with venomous cottonmouth snakes, as the reptiles are forced out of flooded habitats and into more populated areas.

Ohio is home to three rare venomous snakes: the timber rattlesnake, the copperhead, and the massasauga rattlesnake. The timber rattlesnake and massasauga rattlesnake are both endangered species in ...

Oct. 20 (UPI) --A New South Wales, Australia, man called for help when a venomous tiger snake slithered across his foot while he was a passenger in his car. Tanny Parsons said he was riding in the ...