Several accounts highlight alligator encounters, including an alligator injuring a child in Lake Waccamaw and a large gator emerging onto a busy beach. Other stories explain how to deter snakes from ...

John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park Grab your scuba diving gear or board one of the glass-bottomed boats for an aquatic adventure at the nation’s first underwater park in the Florida Keys. Gaze at ...

There are legless reptiles besides snakes that slither across the ground in North Carolina. Here's what to know about them.