In the animal kingdom, the vertebrate intestine is renowned for its regenerative capacity, a vital process for maintaining digestive health. Mammals like humans rely on stem cells in intestinal crypts ...

WASHINGTON -- You don't think of pythons as big-hearted toward their fellow creatures. They're better known for the bulge in their bodies after swallowing one of those creatures whole. But the snakes' ...

People at the University of Colorado Boulder thought Leslie Leinwand had lost her mind when she decided to start studying snakes nearly 20 years ago. It was a research paper that sparked her interest ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. There have been multiple documented incidents where large ...

The new year started off with a bang when a python hunter caught a 202-pound female python. That's a lot of meat to eat. But ...

In this fun video, Carl Jackson and his children show off their near-record python catch using their own bodies for ...

I’m not sure there’s a person in the world who could scroll past a short video of a man calmly letting a 20-foot python ...

Cobras and pythons are two of the most well-known and fascinating snakes in the world, but they are very different from each other. Cobras are venomous snakes which are famous for their deadly bite, ...

When the weather gets cold in Florida, gators stop eating and iguanas start dropping. How do low temps affect the invasive Burmese python?