Before more than a million people could swarm the streets of New Orleans for Mardi Gras, a group of wildlife officials patrolled the streets for potentially dangerous creatures. While the crowd was ...

Snake fanatics, you're needed! Can you identify an odd creature that washed up on a beach in Padre Island, Texas? An unidentified creature resembling a snake or eel was spotted by a beachgoer, and ...

Archaeologists discovered a rock painting of an animal from at least 200 years ago in South Africa that may match with fossils found in the area. The art depicts a horned serpent that may be a ...

An extremely rare, giant serpent-like creature from the deep sea has washed up on a New Zealand beach. The oarfish turned up on Aramoana Beach near Dunedin, where it was found by a local, Isaac ...

This depiction of the Gloucester sea serpent was created in the 1880s-1890s, per the Cape Ann Museum. The caption says it's "engraved from a drawing taken from Life" in an August 1817 sighting. If we ...

Garter snakes can survive being frozen solid for hours. Here’s how evolution, biochemistry and behavior have allowed them to ...

A small creature with no legs can be found slithering through inches of soil or cover. It’s not a snake or a worm, wildlife officials said, and it could be deceiving people in California with its ...