Manatee Lagoon saw its highest number of manatees all season on Jan. 29. See photos, video of large sea cows gathering in the warm Florida water.

The rattlesnakes are hibernating now, spending the winter beneath the surface of a rock outcrop in Colorado where a camera has been posted. The camera has recorded a livestream online ー revealing the ...

Wildlife officials say a large exotic lizard was found buried in the snow in Rhode Island. A man spotted the cold-blooded ...

King cobras are the world's longest venomous snakes. So, imagine seeing one a few feet away as you embark on a train in India. The Western Ghats King Cobra (Ophiophagus kaalinga)—a vulnerable king ...

Scientists undertook the first comprehensive assessment of how often snakes eat their own, uncovering reports of the behavior ...

Deep in the coastal woods of South Carolina, behind high fences, guard dogs, and security cameras, is a group of people who ...

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Matthew Strausser was called to Ellington Field after a Texas rat snake slithered inside one of NASA’s T-38 jets. He sometimes coaxes alligators from beneath vehicles, routinely counts the local deer ...

The options for hiking in South County include many opportunities for seeing native plants, migrating birds and local waterways. Maura Fox has written about many of them in the Hike of the Week column ...

A wildlife refuge an hour northwest of Kansas City counted a record number of bald eagles one day before New Year’s Eve, breaking a number set four years ago. The refuge said that if you’ve been ...

A fundraising campaign to expand and upgrade educational facilities at the Quogue Wildlife Refuge has gotten a boost from a $1.2 million state grant. The grant, announced last week, puts the ...

SpaceX is considering a new land swap deal in South Texas — this time with the federal government. According to a report from the New York Times, the Trump administration may give SpaceX 775 acres of ...