Snakes undergo brumation, a period of inactivity during winter, similar to hibernation. Here are 7 strange things snakes do ...

Coiled in self-defence, this armoured creature – the armadillo girdled lizard – turns its body into a formidable fortress to ...

Snakes don’t have lips, they can't lap up water, and they don’t grab mouthfuls of water and tip their heads back to swallow, ...

A newly identified fossil snake reveals clues about early advanced snake evolution. Its mixed traits highlight an ancient branch of the caenophidian family tree. More than forty years after it was ...

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 ...