In deserts, jungles and swamps around the world, snakes are waging a biochemical war against their prey. When a snake displays its fangs, it’s showing off one of evolution’s greatest weapons. This is ...

The fossil record of squamates, encompassing both lizards and snakes, provides an intricate account of evolutionary innovation over millions of years. Fossils elucidate key morphological transitions, ...

Fossils reveal snakes once possessed functional legs, challenging the notion of a linear evolutionary path. The discovery of ...

Significant insights into snake evolution have come to light with an intriguing discovery of an ancient snake fossil found in La Buitrera Paleontological Area in northern Patagonia. Researchers are ...

Let's face it. Snakes are not most people's favorite animals. They slink and slither without making much noise, have a forked tongue with unblinking eyes, and fangs that bite or coils that wrap. Some ...

Garter snakes can survive being frozen solid for hours. Here’s how evolution, biochemistry and behavior have allowed them to ...

How big they are: Can range from 4 inches (10 centimeters) to over 30 feet (9 meters) There are about 4,000 different snake species in the world today. They occupy a wide range of habitats — some ...

Ecology of snakes on islands / Marcio Martins and Harvey B. Lillywhite -- Isolation, dispersal, and changing sea levels : how sea kraits spread to far-flung islands / Harold Heatwole -- Terrestrial ...

Scientists confirm a record-breaking green anaconda in the Amazon, revealing new species clues, surprising sizes, invasive ...

One afternoon, you read a paper title and pause, not because it is complex, but because it sounds wrong. Right-handed snakes. The idea lingers. Snakes.