With National Snake Day falling on July 16, we’ve decided to discuss snakes and their wildest yet most unknown abilities. From gliding through the air to playing dead (complete with a fake stench), ...

The snake dangles 49 feet off the ground, tail entwined around a branch. Suddenly, the animal rears up and launches, flinging its body toward the forest floor. In other reptiles, the leap would be ...

As unusual governmental research grants go, investigations into flying snakes seems pretty unusual; however, that's just what the US Defense Department has been doing, funding researchers at Virginia ...

It has no wings and no engine — just a long, slim body. But the paradise tree snake effortlessly glides up to 32 feet (10 meters) through the air from tree to tree. Now, physicists are starting to ...