Fishing duo Cole & Jay provide immediate first aid after a fisherman is tagged by a snake while exploring the brush of a local trout stream.

Jacob Sagrera unrolls an alligator skin and lays it flat on a metal table, brushing off flecks of salt. He holds it up to the ...

These wetlands, these alligators … it has to have some kind of monetary value,” said George Melancon, alligator research biologist for the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.

In laboratories and reptile facilities, scientists carefully extract venom from some of the world’s most dangerous snakes. That venom is then injected in small doses into large donor animals such as ...