With the holiday season around the corner, the coastal city of Durban in South Africa is gearing up for its annual influx of ...

A newly identified snake species from the remote Great Nicobar Islands is offering scientists a fresh look at the region’s hidden biodiversity. A newly identified species of wolf snake has been ...

Female snakes can produce their offspring in several different ways. Many people assume that all snakes lay eggs, but the ...

Coastal and tropical waters harbor formidable sea snakes, some of the ocean's most potent predators. Species like Dubois's ...

Researchers were unaware that this large fossil was even an egg until they pierced through its membrane with microscopes and ...

A night dive off Komodo Island, Indonesia, turned unforgettable when an underwater videographer came face-to-face with one of ...

New research shows how deep-sea fish evolved unique body shapes depending on depth and habitat, revealing surprising ...

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 ...

Snakebite envenoming is among the world's deadliest yet most overlooked tropical diseases. The WHO has classified snakebite envenoming as one of 21 neglected tropical diseases, resulting in between ...

New Jersey is home to a rich diversity of snake species, and several of its lakes and rivers are teeming with slithering activity — especially during the warmer months. While most of the state’s ...

Researchers have for the first time closely tracked the fine-scale diving behaviour of two species of sea snakes that forage along the seafloor and discovered that one species performs a curious ...