The night snake, whose scientific classification is Hypsiglena torquata, is a small nocturnal snake found in a broad but irregular range in the western parts of the United States, as well as in ...

The government and private agencies in Bangladesh have rescued at least 351 snakes from various densely populated areas in and around Dhaka city this year. Of the rescued snakes, 319 were venomous. A ...

Melinda Taylor began her Habitat for Humanity career in 1993 as executive director of the Hattiesburg Area Habitat for Humanity in Mississippi. Since 2000, she has been the executive director of ...

The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Officials is reminding residents to not release their pets into the wild after finding a ball python in Jamestown. Officials said the 3-foot ball python ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. More than 4,200 species of snakes exist on the planet and ...

Sept. 23 (UPI) --A ball python found its way into the D.C. Fire and EMS Department's training academy and was safely apprehended by emergency personnel. The department said on social media that the ...

The Deputy Clerk for the City of Floodwood has announced that the city has been awarded $134,000 under the Greater Minnesota Small Cities Housing Aid Grant program to be used for Habitat for Humanity ...

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposes listing southern hognose snake as a threatened species. Proposal cites habitat loss, road deaths, invasive species and climate change impacts as threats.

A ball python, also called the royal python, is a less troublesome cousin to the Burmese, and has been eating its way through the Everglades for decades. Ball pythons are native to west sub Saharan ...

An appeals court rejected the Pacific Legal Foundation’s push to delist the southwestern willow flycatcher, while a district judge in Alabama agreed to shrink the critical habitat for the black pine ...

Michigan’s only species of venomous snake is in trouble. Eastern massasauga rattlesnakes (Sistrurus catenatus) are becoming more isolated because of habitat fragmentation in the state, which is ...