For Beth Koehler and Peggy Van Gorder, this is how it works: Three days a week they run Hair of the Dog, their dog grooming salon in St. Petersburg, Florida. Then they close up shop, pick up their ...

In herpetology, as in other professions, to become proficient at your job you may need to master some tricks of the trade. For example, surviving herpetologists learn how to catch snakes without ...

Florida is letting you join the state’s python battle, soon offering an online program that’ll tell you all about the invasive snakes. The free hourlong session, known as “Python Patrol,” will be ...

NAPLES, Fla. — Invasive Burmese pythons have decimated native mammal populations in Florida's Greater Everglades ecosystem for years, but a new partnership aims to expand the battle against the ...

Water snakes look beautiful as they glide over the water, but did you know they also hunt fish underwater? Read here to learn ...

Tim Agnello rounds up rattlesnakes in his neighbors' yards. He finds places in the dessert with enough food, water and shade and then releases the rattlers. Tim Agnello is a man with a hobby - a hobby ...

Helaina Alati, who is trained to catch snakes, happened to come face-to-face with a python while browsing her local Woolworths supermarket in Sydney, Australia, and handled the situation calmly A ...

Even at highway speed I identified the small snake crawling across the shoulder as a prairie king snake. Old habits -- and herpetologists -- die hard. The harmless snake was determined to cross the ...