In what is believed to be the first encounter captured on video, two wild snakes in Colombia were caught fighting over a meal recently in their natural habitats. Danish researchers Henrik Bringsøe and ...

JOHANNESBURG — South Africa is a hub for the international pet trade, with thousands of animals exported each year. Many of these are exotic birds and mammals like parrots and marmosets, bred locally ...

This is one way to teach people.A daring herpetologist has made a video series on Instagram out of letting wild snakes bite him. David Orin Humphlett, 21, says the motivation for making the videos is ...

Snakes may seem more conspicuous in spring when they are emerging from winter dormancy, but it’s now, in August through September, when snakes reach their highest numbers in Georgia. That’s because ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Researchers with the Memphis Zoo have released 50 endangered Louisiana pine snakes into a national forest in an attempt to revive their population. On April 22 — Earth Day — the ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Raleigh adopted a citywide ordinance to address exotic animals being kept as pets. Council members amended the Raleigh City Code to add the "dangerous wild animals" ordinance.