Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A reticulated python opens its jaws up wide as it attacks a dead rodent. Video footage of the moment snakes launch themselves at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Different venoms attack the body differently. Neurotoxic venom directly attacks the nerves and prevents the brain from receiving ...

It turns out snakes don’t need a plane to fall from the sky. In a bewildering series of events, a Texas woman was injured after a hawk appeared to drop a snake on her before swooping down and ...

With just venom and precision, these snakes can defend themselves from afar, without ever needing to bite you. Here’s what they teach us about evolution and survival.

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford.View full profile Eleanor has an ...

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 ...

High up from the forest floor, birds flit from limb to limb and weave their homes from leafy foliage, seemingly safe from ...