Snakes

A rare, two-headed racer snake turned up in Florida, after being caught by a curious house cat

For the first time, scientists have observed snakes disemboweling toads to dine on their organs.

Spring is the annual mating season for water snakes in Florida. This year, lakegoers saw so many coiled couples that the state's parks department had to shut down part of the area.

The state of Florida is preparing to host the Super Bowl in January … and to wipe out as many invasive pythons as possible.

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.

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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.