Do you ever wish you could just crawl out of your own skin? Snakes are some of the few creatures on Earth that actually can. Dozens of times throughout its life, a snake slithers out of its old skin ...

Like other animals and insects, snakes shed their skin for many different reasons. This practice is beneficial to the snake as they grow older, but have you ever wondered why they have to shed in the ...

Snakes are reptiles of the order Squamata that have no limbs on their long, scaly bodies. These reptiles routinely undergo ecdysis, which is the shedding of a layer of skin. They do this to ...

Photo Illustration: Text that reads "YEAR OF THE SNAKE" with a yellow snake wrapped around it (Justine Goode / NBC News; Getty Images) ...