Snakes primarily bite in self-defense, often due to fear, hunger, or stress from poor handling. However, some species, ...

In honor of the Year of the Snake, let’s appreciate the strange anatomy and evolution of these slithery reptiles ...

“This work is a culmination of a lot of questions that we’ve had about pythons and boas for a long time,” says Jenny Marshall Graves, a geneticist at La Trobe Univeristy in Melbourne, Australia, who ...

Sure enough, when snake catcher Dylan Cooper arrived at Stein’s house in suburban Sydney a few hours later to help Stein ...

He and marine biologist Monica Bonds (Jaime Bergman) enlist a prominent herpetologist (David Hewlett) whose 70-foot Scarlet Queen boa will be outfitted with Monica''s tracking system and used to hunt ...

pythons, boa constrictors, “a bunch” of cottonmouth moccasins and eastern massasauga rattlesnakes. “I’ve been slinging a rattlesnake since I was 12,” says Mr Space, who is also a ...