The cottonmouth, or water moccasin, is often regarded as one of the most dangerous snakes in the southern United States.

From navigation to social behavior to personality, scientists are rewriting what it means to be a clever snake. Here’s what ...

Tracking a single male python through protected wetlands led biologists to one of the largest breeding females captured this year.

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

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 ...

Venomous snakes kill tens of thousands of people every year, mostly in rural parts of Asia and Africa where medical care and ...

Ancient England snake fossil Paradoxophidion helps explain how modern snakes evolved during warm humid Eocene period.

"Not the snake you want to crawl all over you," Hervey Bay Snake Catchers in Australia wrote about one of the snakes pulled from the toilet Hervey Bay Snake Catchers A man in Australia recently found ...

Snakes have adapted to climb trees, leap across hot sand, and even swim through water — all without arms or legs. What’s their secret? Mike Bock This corn snake, shown here at the Smithsonian's ...

Ever admired a snazzy pair of python boots? Snapped open an elegant python-skin clutch? Dreamed of cinching your jeans with a sleek python belt? Zach Hoffman is one of them. A transplant from Boston, ...

Spain boasts a considerable number of different species of snakes, and there are 11 species found on the Iberian peninsula.

People often describe dogs as loving, cats as selective and snakes as indifferent, but that simple comparison misses how ...