A pet boa constrictor named Pablo made a break for it Palm Beach County when his owner's wife went into labor.

A crocodile has been caught in an Australian creek on the temperate east coast far from the species' tropical habitat.

By slowing their metabolism, storing fat, or entering dormancy, these animals can easily spend this time without eating.

They're the largest snakes on Earth, roaming the Amazon. They've eaten goats, deer, and even crocodiles. So what would happen if an anaconda tried to eat you? Can an anaconda really swallow a human?

A nest of snake eggs on the ground - Ton Ponchai/Shutterstock Deweeding your garden only to find a cluster of snake eggs may sound like a gardener's nightmare, but it doesn't have to be a scary ...

Whether they do so for food, or simply the humans are in the wrong place at the wrong time, these are the animals that eat the most humans annually.

Scientists have uncovered yet another reason not to trust a snake—the slithering creatures have a habit of eating each other. A recent study compiled over 500 incidents of cannibalism in more than 200 ...

The complex biology of ghrelin, the hunger hormone, has researchers wondering how its absence helps snakes last a long time with no food, if at all.

A newly released study shows that snakes are more cannibalistic than previously thought. Snakes will commonly prey on other species of snake, but cannibalism in this case is when a snake will eat one ...