Snakes

Scientists have unearthed an amazingly preserved skull of an ancient snake with hind limbs, revealing more about the origin of snakes and how they lost their legs.

Teeth and scales didn't stop an Australian olive python from getting a meal.

Above all, remain calm.

An Australian python vomited up a larger Australian python that it had eaten earlier.

Rangers in Australia could hardly believe their eyes when they came across a wild snake with three functioning peepers on its head.

A snake pulled from inside another snake's stomach was a species unknown to science.

Some 511 bloodsucking ticks were removed from this snake.

What might be passed over as two oddly shaped rocks are the work of Stone Age artisans who sculpted the rocks into beady-eyed snake heads, archaeologists have found.

Nope. Nope. Nope.

A fossil of a baby snake entombed in amber dates to 99 million years ago.

Five new species of snail-eating snakes were discovered in Ecuador.

Shortly after a man killed a rattlesnake in his backyard, the rattlesnake's severed head bit and injected venom into the man, seriously injuring him.

A life-threatening condition with a boring-sounding name has consequences that are gruesome and potentially deadly.

Python moms care for their babies, even though it wears them down.

A deer swallowed (and barfed up again) by a snake weighed more than its predator.

Judging by the interlocked combatants' bodies, no quarter was given in the final minutes of this deadly struggle.