The discovery that small stone arrow tips were treated with plant poison 60,000 years ago means that ancient African hunters ...

Snakes are one of nature's most interesting survivors. Where most people imagine them basking in warm sun or hiding amongst ...

This story originally published in the September 2008 issue of National Geographic magazine. See more digitized stories from our archives here. The biologist Iain Douglas-Hamilton is walking up on an ...

Sometimes plunging in headfirst and barehanded is the most efficient way to nab the lizard, says Mike Kimmel, who goes by ...

South African authorities raided a U.S. refugee facility in Johannesburg, briefly detaining U.S. staff who have been processing white Afrikaner refugees. The episode is sure to be a source of further ...

Long before agriculture or cities, hunters in southern Africa were already engineering weapons that relied on chemistry as ...

Jack Russell terriers are the blood-tracking breed preferred by many South African big-game hunters for their grit and their ...

The annual Florida Python Challenge was held in July this year and when all of the counting was completed, a woman from Naples claimed the top prize.

Mike Kimmel, known as the "Python Cowboy," leads guided hunts for invasive iguana and Burmese pythons. Invasive iguanas are a costly pest in Florida, damaging landscaping and burrowing into flood ...

A pair of python hunters stumbled across a python swim party that might offer new insights into their nesting patterns in<a ...

If they reach the ecosystem's carrying capacity in the Everglades, the pythons will spread, and that likely means into ...