Snakes

A tree-dwelling Cropan's boa snake recently captured in Brazil is the first living specimen seen in 64 years.

A highly venomous brown snake and a red-bellied black snake become entangled in a lethal encounter in South Australia.

A python in Queensland, Australia, got quite a scratchy surprise when the 5-foot-long (1.5 meters) snake gulped down a tennis ball this week.

For the first time, scientists have captured high-speed video of a viper striking at its prey in the wild.

When scientists in southern Brazil turned over a rock looking for tarantulas, they came across something they'd never expected: a spider eating a snake.

A tarantula (Grammostola quirogai) chows down on a Almaden ground snake (Erythrolamprus almadensis) in southern Brazil. And here are the gory photos of the feat.

Baseline stress, not the trauma of capture, influences if snakes bite.

A "Klingon newt" and a "Ziggy Stardust" snake are two of 163 new species recently discovered in Southeast Asia.

A Burmese python treated the Florida Everglades like an all-you-can-eat buffet after it ate three deer in a mere three months, a new study finds.

A Burmese python in the Everglades with a penchant for venison gulped down three whole deer — one doe and two fawns — before wildlife officials captured and euthanized it, a new study reveals.