Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

This is the chilling moment a hungry python slithered across bird cages and tried to bite the pet owner who passed through the dark. The 8ft (3m) snake entered the home through the garden to try and ...

Q. What does a python eat? FWC:Burmese pythons are generalist predators. A variety of species have been found in their gut contents during necropsies including a variety of mammals, birds, reptiles, ...

An 89-year-old Florida woman known to her family as “Grandma Bunny” bashed in the head of a 6-foot-long snake after she caught the reptile eating a bird in her backyard. Garlene Eiceman first thought ...

Donna Kalil loves snakes. She’s been fascinated by them since she was a kid living in the mountains of Venezuela’s capital in the 1960s, where her father was stationed as an Air Force pilot. “We’d ...