Today the team measures some of the largest snakes in their collection to see just how big they’ve grown. Using string and tape measures to follow the length of each snake’s spine, they carefully ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. In the humid swamps of what is now Colombia, there was once ...

How many types of snakes are there? It's hard to quantify with one final answer because it changes. The short answer is that currently, there are over 4,000 snake species on Earth, grouped into about ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On February 4th, the longest wild snake in history was recorded according to Guinness World Records. The reticulated python was ...

AND RESCUE. WELL, CALIFORNIA NOW HAS A STATE SNAKE. IT IS THE GIANT GARTER SNAKE. THE POPULATION OF THE GIANT GARTER SNAKE HAS DECLINED BY MORE THAN 90% OVER THE LAST CENTURY. THERE IT IS. IT WAS ...

A single fossilized bone has unlocked a surprising chapter in Taiwan’s ancient past — one in which a giant python stretching ...

Any report on invasive species is bound to have bad news, it seems, and a new report from the U.S. Geological Survey analyzing the threat from nine giant snake species is possibly even worse because ...

A prehistoric viper discovered in Greece may have outweighed today’s king cobra. Fossils suggest this ancient snake was ...

Fossil reveals that a giant python over 4 meters long once lived in Taiwan. The discovery rewrites the island's natural history.