A striking new resident is settling into a permanent home at Brevard Zoo after being rescued from illegal ownership.

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Emi Knafo, DVM, DACZM is a zoological medicine specialist and assistant clinical professor of zoological medicine at the University of Tennessee (UT) in Knoxville. She grew up ...

I spent years chasing down rattlesnakes and the people who survived close encounters with them. Here's what I learned.

Scientists have identified the first fossil evidence that a giant python more than 13 feet long once lived on Taiwan. The discovery reveals that the island once supported far larger predators than ...

This video examines the size and weight of some of the largest reptiles in the collection. Handlers carefully measure and weigh a massive constrictor stretching close to twenty feet in length. The ...

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