Mike Kimmel, known as the "Python Cowboy," leads guided hunts for invasive iguana and Burmese pythons. Invasive iguanas are a costly pest in Florida, damaging landscaping and burrowing into flood ...

Certain species of snakes are large and strong enough and possess the appropriate ability to devour big prey like human ...

This story originally published in the September 2008 issue of National Geographic magazine. See more digitized stories from our archives here. The biologist Iain Douglas-Hamilton is walking up on an ...

A house filled with snakes and spiders might be straight out of many people's nightmares, but to longtime exotic pet keeper Nolan Asplund, they’re like family. “Exotic animals, and animals as a whole, ...

Sometimes plunging in headfirst and barehanded is the most efficient way to nab the lizard, says Mike Kimmel, who goes by ...

The discovery that small stone arrow tips were treated with plant poison 60,000 years ago means that ancient African hunters ...

BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Voters in the Central African Republic cast their ballots to elect a new president and federal lawmakers Sunday, with incumbent President Faustin Archange ...

Professional python hunters spotted something strange happening in a South Florida pond. They soon realized they might be the ...

The Central African Republic's incumbent president, Faustin-Archange Touadera, was widely expected to win a third term in an election Sunday in which he touted his efforts steadying a nation long ...

A 25-year public-private partnership aimed at developing critical mineral value chains, establishing domestic refining capacity, strengthening workforce skills, and positioning the Central African ...

Referendum in 2023 paved way for president's third-term bid Russian mercenaries, Rwandan troops have boosted security Peace gains fragile despite deals with rebel groups BANGUI, Dec 25 (Reuters) - ...

Taylor Stanberry became the first woman to win the Florida Python Challenge in 2025. She captured 60 invasive Burmese pythons during the 10-day competition. Stanberry, a Naples native, has over a ...