This family is snake-charmed. A Florida man has transformed his garage into a haven for hundreds of exotic reptiles — and even lets his young kids cuddle with the slithery serpents in bed.

Socratis Christoforu/SWNS Snakes can be caring, cuddly companions, according to one Florida family. Socratis Christoforu has always had an appreciation for snakes, telling SWNS he started ...

eventually finding a suitable habitat in Florida’s swamps and forests. Over time, these snakes have thrived in the wild, causing a reduction in local wildlife populations as they prey on native ...

South Florida is under attack ... The giant African land snail "can grow as big as a rat and gnaw through stucco and plaster," says Reuters' Barbara Liston. Since the monstrous mollusks were ...

The snakes have been found in habitats in Indonesia, India and China, per the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. A wet, tropical climate is what reticulated pythons prefer ...

Was I seeing something akin to joy in a rat? Maybe so, considering that neuroscience research is increasingly suggesting that joy and positive emotions play a critical role in the health of both ...

Discovering a rat infestation in a restaurant is nothing new. But it still makes many grimace in disgust. Remember the rodent that fell from the ceiling of the Tangs Market Food Court? This time, a ...

A Morrisons supermarket was forced to shut its doors after a council slapped them with a hygiene notice amid stories of a supposed rat infestation. The Chingford branch was found to have an ...

Florida native Jeri Cohen, 71, was about to start college in 1970 when she traveled to New York to have an abortion. In 1989, she founded the Women’s Emergency Network, the largest abortion fund ...

The birth of Pope Mouse stems from a donation by one of Jeanie’s business associates who apparently donated dead mice to her project after they were unused by snake owners as food. Though the original ...

Voters in Missouri cleared the way to undo one of the nation's most restrictive abortion bans in one of seven victories for abortion rights advocates, while Florida, Nebraska and South Dakota ...

which infects at least 19 snake species, is poised to spread throughout the southeastern U.S. Jenna Palmisano, a biologist at the University of Central Florida, holds a preserved specimen of ...