Floridians share their home with a variety of scaly neighbors who don’t always welcome visitors — accidental or not.

The Montgomery Zoo this week announced the birth of a female pygmy hippopotamus. Anuket was actually born on Feb. 9 but has spent the last month bonding with her mother behind the scenes ...

Duffy, A., Pound, L. and How, T. The long term vision for the pygmy bluetongue lizard recovery program is to achieve down-listing of Tiliqua adelaidensis to conservation dependent. For this to occur, ...

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HAYWOOD COUNTY, N.C. (WLOS) — The Rattlesnake Branch Fire in Cruso has expanded to 500 acres and is 0% contained as of 4 p.m. Thursday, according to the North Carolina Forest Service's Wildfire ...

Fresno Chaffee Zoo and Poison Control offer safety tips to deal with rattlesnakes. The best advice is to just avoid them while hiking. Our region's Northern Pacific rattlesnake isn't aggressive. Go to ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — The USDA Forest Service has closed the Shining Rock Designated Wilderness Area within the Pisgah National Forest due to the ongoing Rattlesnake Branch Fire. According to ...

As of 9 a.m., the Rattlesnake Branch fire in Cruso was 0% contained. The fire continues to burn westward into the Shining Rock Wilderness Area in Haywood County. Wednesday, the Forest Service ...

A man searches the patchwork of sagebrush and agricultural fields in south-central Washington for a bird that has struggled ...