A 12-foot-long Burmese python was captured over the weekend in Port Tampa by police and firefighters, who gingerly guided the reptile into a city-issued garbage can as spectators watched. ...more

December 8, 2009

A 12-foot-long Burmese python was captured over the weekend in South Tampa by police and firefighters who gingerly guided the reptile into a city-issued garbage can as spectators watched. ...more

December 7, 2009

I would like to know the age, origin and value of my hand-carved, life-sized skull with an intertwined snake. It opens to a small space much like a humidor. It might have belonged to Gene Autry. ...more

December 6, 2009

Two Pasco County residents were recovering at a Tampa hospital Monday after being bitten by rattlesnakes during the weekend. ...more

November 3, 2009

Sheila and Michael Brewer are accustomed to rescuing cats, dogs and unwanted farm animals – but not a reptile so big they don't have a dog crate large enough for it. But that's what happened last Thursday when they came across a 4-foot iguana sunning itself outside a medical building in Pinellas Park. The Brewers were in Pinellas checking out possible foster homes for their rescued animals. ...more

October 20, 2009

One fatality was reported Monday when a pygmy rattlesnake bit an 87-year-old woman on the hand. The final score: Cane-wielding octogenarian, 1: venomous snake, 0. ...more

August 10, 2009

An American Crocodile whose skull was rebuilt by veterinarians at Miami Metrozoo has died. ...more

April 3, 2009

Attitude, the alligator, gets amorous whenever her friend, the garbage truck, rumbles by. Or she gets angry, thinking an intrusive reptile is lurking in her territory. ...more

February 18, 2009

Attitude, the alligator, gets amorous whenever her friend, the garbage truck, rumbles by. Or she gets angry, thinking an intrusive reptile is lurking in her territory. Either way, the 25-year-old American alligator - the queen mum at Sarasota Jungle Gardens - acts weird. Twice a week, a city garbage truck growls nearby and hoists garbage bins into its cavernous maw, Attitude, who's been at the park for about 10 years, jerks her head up, hoists her tail and lets out a bellow for the ages. ...more

February 17, 2009

Those with ophidiophobia didn't shy away from the 42nd Annual Rattlesnake Festival on Saturday. The festival continues from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. today in San Antonio City Park, 12202 Main St. The spotlight will focus on the snake and reptile shows, provided at numerous times by professional herpetologists. Tickets for the shows are $5 for adults and $2 for children younger than 12. ...more

October 19, 2008