Not all snakes lay eggs—some give birth to live young, from rattlesnakes to sea snakes, revealing surprising survival strategies and adaptations that help them thrive in harsh or unusual environments.

Donna Kalil is a contracted snake hunter who won the 2024 Florida Python Challenge for catching and removing 11 of the invasive reptiles. In just over a week, hundreds of python hunters will descend ...

Snakes are a hallmark of healthy habitats. And throughout the country, most habitats have more snakes present in early fall than at any other time of the year, even spring. The explanation is a simple ...

Scientists have described a particular movement observed mostly in young, teenaged anacondas, called an S-start. A mathematical framework shows that young anacondas, as opposed to babies and adults, ...

Researchers from IIT-Bombay and Harvard University have discovered a previously unreported S-shaped escape movement in young yellow anacondas. This rapid, non-planar motion, termed the "S-start," is ...

What a Tennessee man thought was car trouble actually turned out to be a secret passenger under his hood. Jesse Hodge noticed ...