For Beth Koehler and Peggy Van Gorder, this is how it works: Three days a week they run Hair of the Dog, their dog grooming salon in St. Petersburg, Florida. Then they close up shop, pick up their ...

In herpetology, as in other professions, to become proficient at your job you may need to master some tricks of the trade. For example, surviving herpetologists learn how to catch snakes without ...

Tim Agnello rounds up rattlesnakes in his neighbors' yards. He finds places in the dessert with enough food, water and shade and then releases the rattlers. Tim Agnello is a man with a hobby - a hobby ...

NAPLES, Fla. — Invasive Burmese pythons have decimated native mammal populations in Florida's Greater Everglades ecosystem for years, but a new partnership aims to expand the battle against the ...

LAS VEGAS, Nevada (KVVU) — When the sun comes out in the Las Vegas Valley, so do the rattlesnakes. With temperatures now in the 90s, these snakes are looking for places to cool down. Sometimes, that ...

Even at highway speed I identified the small snake crawling across the shoulder as a prairie king snake. Old habits -- and herpetologists -- die hard. The harmless snake was determined to cross the ...

Helaina Alati, who is trained to catch snakes, happened to come face-to-face with a python while browsing her local Woolworths supermarket in Sydney, Australia, and handled the situation calmly A ...