Researchers analyzed venomous snake strikes, revealing remarkable speed and precision in less than a blink of an eye.

Snakes frequently flick their forked tongues to collect chemical particles, delivering them to their Jacobson's organ for ...

Snakes that constrict and then swallow enormous prey have evolved a way to keep themselves from suffocating while they do it. When the scaley coils closest to the snake's head are super busy squeezing ...

When we think of fast animals, cheetahs sprinting across the African Savanna or peregrine falcons diving through the sky might come to mind. But some of the speediest creatures can be found slithering ...

The research, conducted in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Michigan, was published in the peer-reviewed journal BMC Ecology and Evolution. "We now have evidence that this group of ...

The coucal kills snakes by battering them against the ground or a branch.

Two red-tailed coral snakes have been observed competing over a caecilian in the first documented wild case of kleptoparasitism within the family Elapidae. Two red-tailed coral snakes have been ...

But there’s nothing supernatural about how snakes move. So how exactly do they get around without legs? They do it by ...

Dusk starts to settle across the landscape. The dirt trail, lit by the last licks of sunlight, winds through the trees. The ...