Neurotoxic venom directly attacks the nerves and prevents the brain from receiving or sending signals to the muscles. Snake ...

Quick Take Reaching a size 5 times larger than males is a biological benchmark for breeding females. Holding breath for 10 ...

With just venom and precision, these snakes can defend themselves from afar, without ever needing to bite you. Here’s what ...

Researchers in Colombia have scanned the skins of aquatic snakes to figure out how scale sensilla, tiny sensor-like structures, could help them find and attack prey. Scale sensilla, which are ...

As if snakes couldn't get any scarier, a researcher stumbled across a snake that had vomited up two smaller snakes—one of which was somehow still alive. This skin-crawling story was shared to Facebook ...

Snakes are fearsome creatures that you wouldn’t consider to be prey for other predators – but there are some animals that regularly dine on snakes! Birds of prey are able to drop down on unsuspecting ...