High in the forest canopy, one genus of snake learned how to solve the problem of flight without wings. Here’s how, according ...

IT'S MIDNIGHT ON Guam, and an eight-foot-long brown tree snake has just emerged from a toilet bowl. After hours of slithering through sewage pipes, she's hungry. She slides across the bathroom floor ...

There's usually a sense of excitement about what lies beneath the Christmas tree, but for one festive family the biggest surprise was lurking in the branches up above. Rob and Marcela Wild wasted no ...

A family in South Africa who had finished decorating their Christmas tree hours earlier had a terrifying unexpected visitor, when a ‘venomous boomslang’ snake slithered out of their tree in between ...

A family in Hervey Bay, Australia, received a rather unwanted gift this Christmas after their son found a deadly snake slithering underneath their Christmas tree on Friday afternoon. "The young child ...

An international team has been able to reconstruct the evolutionary tree of a major group of snakes, Elapoidea, that has proved to be a significant step towards the construction of a complete Tree of ...

Arlington animal control officer David Davis has captured a variety of creatures over the past few years, but never a boa constrictor. Photos of Davis holding the snake were shared online by Arlington ...

Snakes perceive the world differently from humans, possessing dichromatic vision with two primary colors due to unique visual pigments. Their eye structures and UV sensitivity are finely tuned to ...

There's usually a sense of excitement about what lies beneath the Christmas tree, but for one festive family the biggest surprise was lurking in the branches up above. Rob and Marcela Wild wasted no ...