Researchers filmed 10 species eating or scavenging bats at known Marburg-virus hotspot — and caught hundreds of humans ...

Tourism at a cave swarming with bats known to have transmitted a deadly fever disease? The popularity of Uganda's Python Cave points to yet another way interactions at the animal-human interface—where ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Burmese pythons are an invasive species in the Florida Everglades where they are decimating some medium-sized mammal species.

Have you noticed that many invasive species are snakes? We explain why snakes are so good at taking over new areas.

Biologists Leslie Leinwand of the University of Colorado Boulder and Jonathon Long of Stanford University have discovered a compound in python blood that can suppress appetite. This compound helps ...

Docile, furry and cute to some, possums have become an unexpected ally in the effort to slow the invasion of Burmese pythons, ...

Burmese pythons provide an integrative contamination signal across terrestrial–aquatic food webs, leveraging long lifespan, ...

Bringing a creature into your home that might outlive a mortgage changes how you think about pet ownership. Most people ...

Which animal kills the most humans per year? If you guessed sharks, you'd be wrong ...

Python’s Kiss” collects a baker’s dozen stories, nine of which have previously been published in The New Yorker and elsewhere ...

Python’s Kiss” collects a baker’s dozen stories, nine of which previously have been published in the New Yorker and elsewhere ...