Snakes

A missing cobra is likely curled up somewhere dark and warm, zoo officials say.

Want to watch three rats travel down the intestine of a Burmese python?

Snakes don't need wings to go airborne.

Python hunters invited to kill, but encouraged not to eat, invasive snakes.

The gruesome images show a gradual disappearance of the rat, along with an overall expansion of the snake's intestine, shrinking of the gallbladder, and increase in heart volume.

Spitting cobras have dead-on accuracy when spitting venom. Now scientists know why.

Snakes feast on birds at the edge of fragmented forests

A new fossil turtle species discovered in South America had a shell about as thick as a high school textbook

Blind snakes living in Madagascar were there when the spit of land broke off of India 100 million years ago.

Generally they can see shapes but not details.

Giant ancient snake fossil is found coiled around a crushed dinosaur egg.

Some giant snake species would pose a threat to U.S. ecological systems if they were ever established here, a new report finds.

One sea snake tricks predators with a head-mimicking tail.

A small water snake has developed a sneaky trick: It startles fish into swimming right into its mouth.

Researchers found that snake scales are crucial in allowing snakes to slither.

My daughter has a snake, a tiny 8-inch-long, innocuous corn snake, and I hate that thing.

Rattlesnake mothers will eat their dead offspring to regain energy lost in reproduction.

A legendary snake-like creature is thought to have come alive.