Picture an animal that huddles up with others when stressed, babysits its young, hangs out around relatives, and gathers in big groups every year. Did you imagine a rattlesnake? For a long time, ...

Red snakes are perhaps the most visually stunning of these intriguing reptiles, drawing attention with vibrant shades of ...

One of 8 U.S. lakes with the most snakes, according to World Atlas, is in Alabama, teeming with venomous and non-venomous ...

The night snake, whose scientific classification is Hypsiglena torquata, is a small nocturnal snake found in a broad but ...

The snake-tail mantis shows there’s more to these insects than just cannibalism. This male snake-tail mantis, Ameles serpentiscauda, has three simple eyes (ocelli) visible between its antennae, which ...

Crikey, a new species of wolf snake has been discovered in India and named after the late Steve Irwin. Researchers decided to call the glossy black snake "Irwin's wolf snake," or "Lycodon irwini," in ...

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Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

A new species of wolf snake was discovered from the Great Nicobar Islands, India. Researchers R. S. Naveen and S. R. Chandramouli of the Pondicherry University, Zeeshan A. Mirza of the Max Planck ...

Scientists have developed a nanobody-based antivenom that neutralizes toxins from most African cobras, mambas and the rinkhals, which could offer safer, scalable protection beyond existing snakebite ...

A University of Florida study found that snake bites in the state are an understudied but avoidable risk. Most venomous snake bites in Florida occurred when people, primarily men, intentionally ...

Researchers have developed a promising new antivenom effective against more than a dozen venemous snake species, according to trials in mice. Holger Krisp, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons An ...