Kolkata: A primate, considered ‘vulnerable’ on the IUCN Red list, three ball pythons and two albino squirrels were seized by the Customs officials at the Kolkata airport early on Wednesday.

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Naples, a city along the southwest coast of Florida, is plagued by one of the most capable creepy predators on the planet. The situation is dire from an ecological perspective. For years, hunters, ...

Pythons may be changing the Everglades in a surprising way. New research indicates that Burmese pythons could be altering landscapes in Florida by carrying seeds to new places and affecting which ...

Ground squirrels spend many months in a winter slumber, and then awake ravenous and eat anything and everything in sight. A study of 700,000-year-old DNA from coprolites — fossilized poo — has now ...

Biologists at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida removed 8,080 pounds of invasive Burmese pythons from the outskirts of Naples in just six months. The haul — 177 snakes in total — beats their ...

The reptiles, native to Southeast Asia, are considered an invasive species, and state law requires them to be euthanized after capture Lexi Lane is a weekend banking writer at PEOPLE. She first joined ...