Reptiles

Using high-speed video, herpetologist Bill Ryerson filmed snakes attacking dead rodents and found species fit into two broad categories: strikers and lungers.

Queensland authorities are on the lookout for a crocodile reported to have leapt into a fisher's boat at Jane Creek before losing its balance and tumbling back into the water.

An extremely rare leucistic alligator born in Gatorland, Orlando, is the result of a genetic condition that leads to the partial loss of skin pigmentation, resulting in white or translucent skin.

Scientists explain why animals in Australia wield venom as a weapon.

Arabian sand boas live in deserts on the Arabian Peninsula, where they lie buried in the sand with only their derpy eyes peeking out as they wait for prey.

A huge Burmese python caught in Florida is the second-heaviest ever caught in the state, weighing in at 198 pounds.

Researchers found three species of skink in Australia they feared could be extinct, including the Lyon's grassland striped skink.

Researchers are only beginning to understand the cryptic lives of the earless monitor lizards of Borneo.

Paleontologists have described a new species of mosasaur with "angry eyebrows" that lived 80 million years ago.

Ancient Egypt had far more venomous snakes than the country does today, according to a new study of a scroll.