Just because an animal is venomous doesn’t always mean it is “un-pettable.” Here are a couple of noteworthy exceptions.

Black mambas (Dendroaspis polylepis) are Africa's longest, most famous venomous snakes. Despite their fearsome reputation, ...

For this humble brown reptile to rebound as successfully as other endangered species, conservation history shows that it will ...

Police responded to a shooting on Friday, Oct. 3. Two men, ages 37 and 41, were pronounced dead. No arrests have been made; investigation ongoing QUEENS, N.Y. - A late-night shooting left two men dead ...

A woman who went missing in China was found inside a well with water snakes over two days later, South China Morning Post reported. Qin survived inside the well for 54 hours, battling exhaustion, ...

The Conservancy of Southwest Florida has removed 20 tons of Burmese pythons from the western Everglades since 2013. The invasive pythons have decimated native wildlife, with at least 85 species ...

Researchers have discovered a mysterious ancient lizard with snake-like teeth in Scotland. Breugnathair elgolensis is one of the oldest relatively complete lizard fossils and helps scientists better ...

In a wildlife sanctuary and national park in Bangladesh, two tree species were recorded for the first time. Getty Images/iStock Photo When searching through the forest for new and unique critters, ...

In the early 1950s, British physician Philip Hugh-Jones was flummoxed by 13 patients who showed up at the diabetes clinic he ran near Kingston, Jamaica. At the time, researchers broadly recognized two ...

Let me start this out with saying that I am not a huge fan of snakes. They slither and creep me out comepletely. tt's just the slimy way that they move and they are sneaky. Sneaky snake. Isn't that a ...

Meet Tim Friede, a man who spent nearly two decades deliberately exposing himself to snake venom. Enduring hundreds of bites and carefully measured injections allowed him to build an unusual immune ...