Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Snakes don't just slither. They strike, glide, and even fly. You know that scene in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone where ...

How do snakes manage to swallow and digest animals that are bigger than their heads? Unlike humans and many other animals, snakes don’t chew their food. They swallow their prey whole, which can ...

Snakes have adapted to climb trees, leap across hot sand, and even swim through water — all without arms or legs. What’s their secret? Mike Bock This corn snake, shown here at the Smithsonian's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The world of snakes is equal parts fascinating and fear-inducing. Some folks keep them as scaly companions, while others would ...

In the world of tree climbing, snakes adopt a surprisingly cautious approach. The study published in Biology Letters reveals that these limbless reptiles exert up to three times the force necessary to ...

As a graduate student at the Free University of Brussels nearly 20 years ago, Athanasia Tzika analyzed the genomes of several animals to better understand their diversity. During this time, the ...

Researchers in Colombia have scanned the skins of aquatic snakes to figure out how scale sensilla, tiny sensor-like structures, could help them find and attack prey. Scale sensilla, which are ...

A researcher has found that the rapid detection of snakes by monkeys is because of the presence of snake scales as a visual cue. His findings highlight an evolutionary adaptation of primates to ...