Learn how black mambas, often viewed as Africa's deadliest snake, are helping researchers track pollution in cities with their scales. Jack Knudson is an assistant editor for Discover Magazine who ...

Without legs, snakes must get creative to slither up trees, and new research suggests they use the scales covering their bodies to make such climbs. Their scales and body muscles work together to push ...

For the first time ever, scientists have created genetically modified snakes. The CRISPR-edited reptiles are providing new insight into how corn snakes (Pantherophis guttatus) develop their precisely ...

Scientists finally discover how snakes slither across smooth surfaces. June 9, 2009— -- The secrets of how snakes slither across smooth surfaces have finally been pinned down by animal locomotion ...

OSAKA -- Primates, including humans, instinctively fear snakes due to their scales, not their unsettling, slithering ...