A vermin invasion has turned a ritzy Upper West Side block into “The Valley of the Rats.” Residents are said they’re afraid ...

The owner of hundreds of snakes and rats being raised inside a Queensbury apartment is now facing five counts of animal ...

Humans may be genetically predisposed to fear contact with snakes. But we have a lot to learn from them.

The power of a rattlesnake's venom to incapacitate its prey may depend on more than just its potency, or even the prey animal ...

During the afternoon trek, researchers noticed a “slender” camouflaged snake, the study said. Intrigued, they caught it, took a closer look and realized they’d discovered a new species ...

Health officials found extensive evidence of rats on Gene Hackman’s New Mexico property during a hantavirus risk assessment test after the star’s wife was killed by the rodent-linked disease ...

Lake Malawi, Africa. Image by Joachim Huber, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Water bodies often evoke images of ...

Intrigued, he took a closer look at the animals, compared them with other known species and soon realized he’d discovered a new species: Dendrelaphis atra, or the atra tree snake. A Dendrelaphis ...