Snakes, encouraged by recent warm temperatures, have already emerged from burrows and rock crevices to hunt for prey throughout the county’s lower-elevation hillsides and canyons. Gopher snakes, ...

"This snake could easily swallow at least a calf, if not an adult cow," an explorer and natural history photographer said of ...

North Carolina doesn’t have any officially “snake-infested” lakes. But if you spend time around freshwater wetlands, rivers, ...

Editor’s note: Bill Kearney of the South Florida Sun Sentinel recently headed out to the Everglades, when the unexpected happened. It was the seventh alligator we’d seen on the two-mile bike ride ...