Last fall, scientists reported the first known recordings of greater noctule bats hunting and feasting on songbirds during ...

Python tacos? Python pizza? 'Chicken of the Glades?' Florida considered making invasive snakes a food source. Then science ...

I had come here on an excursion with Bangkok Herping, a new walking-tour outfit that swaps the Thai capital city’s ...

Natural historians have many observational techniques in their toolkit for learning about the natural world: tagging animals with tracking devices, recording sounds, analyzing droppings or simply ...

Renaissance painter Jan Brueghel the Elder painted a bat eating a bird — 400 years before scientists would document the ...

My guide, Thai American snake expert Christopher Shannon, caught it in the beam of his flashlight, the snake’s chartreuse ...

With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, ...

A hyena is no easy target, with powerful jaws and a reputation for holding its own against lions and leopards, yet one ...

A study found 25 seed types in python guts and 73 types in tegus, including both native and invasive plants. The reptiles may be effectively spreading native plant seeds, complicating their role in ...

An online discussion is spotlighting an unexpected way Florida's invasive python problem may be changing the Everglades. Beyond their well-known toll on native wildlife, the snakes could also be ...

Upstate NY is home to some of America's oldest zoos, including the nation's third-oldest zoo, which has polar bears and giraffes.

Burmese pythons are an invasive species disrupting the South Florida ecosystem. The snake's unique jaw structure allows it to consume large prey, including deer, whole. Conservancy of Southwest ...