Snakes

Hunters caught a record-breaking 17-foot-long (5 meters) Burmese python in the Everglades on Dec. 1, but experts say there are likely hundreds of the massive snakes still in hiding.

An Australian teenager was left fighting for his life after being bitten by his pet inland taipan, one of the most dangerous snake species in the world, according to news reports.

A village in Indonesia enjoyed a snake-meat feast this weekend after a resident wrestled and killed a 26 foot-long (7.8 meters) python.

Snakes are more social than scientists thought.

Two of the world's deadliest snakes were spotted fighting on the green of a golf course.

A secretive new ground snake gets a mythology-inspired name.

Check out these photos of Atractus snakes, which typically live in burrows and eat insect larvae.

How does the mighty kingsnake overpower the even mightier rat snake? It uses its tremendous constriction power, a new study finds.

A giant snake loses its lunch.