In 1938, zoologist Ellis Le Geyt Troughton mourned that Australia's "gentle and specialized creatures" were "unable to cope ...

A red-tailed boa constrictor on the loose in suburban Sydney was finally captured by a professional reptile wrangler -- thanks in part to the efforts of a TV news reporter.

On a small island of Papua New Guinea, a 4-foot-long creature moved through the overgrown rainforest covering the site of an ...

Footage emerged online of the large snake on the loose, which a professional believed to be a red-tailed boa constrictor. Red-tailed boa constrictors are not native to Australia and can be victim ...

Tristian Frahm, who died in November 2021 after being bitten by a brown snake on a remote property near Murgon in Queensland’s South Burnett region, had moved to the area in 2020 to live with ...

On a small island of Papua New Guinea, a hawk tried to attack a “large” 4-foot-long predator but ended up becoming its prey instead. A scientist stumbled up on the scene and w ...

Many snake lovers covet boa constrictors as exotic pets. "The boa constrictor is not native to Australia and is a high risk of establishing populations in a wide range of environments in NSW and ...

A 4-year-old boy accidentally shot himself at his family's home, which had at least 30 snakes and a crocodile inside of it, prompting his parents' arrests, authorities said. The 39-year-old mother ...