Snakes are one of the earth’s creatures you either love or hate. Some are fascinated with their behavior and movements, while others run in fear at the sight (or sound). Regardless of your opinion on ...

Not all snakes lay eggs—some give birth to live young, from rattlesnakes to sea snakes, revealing surprising survival strategies and adaptations that help them thrive in harsh or unusual environments.

In my opinion, snakes have gotten a bum rap. Despite the unfortunate creepy reputation these lanky reptiles have earned, many species of snakes can make beautiful, docile, and hardy house pets! Of ...

Want to know if you live in a healthy environment? Find a snake. All snakes are carnivores, which means they eat other animals. If their prey is present, it means healthy plants are also around.

People have developed all kinds of quick gimmicks, nursery rhymes and old wives’ tales in trying to create an easy way to figure out whether a snake can harm you. Some of them work, some of the time.

At Luxor, Egypt, all travelers who pay may hear a fat & sleek native gentleman mumble and whistle and beat a tambour. Anon a cobra, no pretty worm of Nilus,* creeps out of nowhere at the feet of that ...

Snakes, like most reptiles in the world, are oviparous. This means that rather than producing live young ones, the way mammals do, snakes produce an immature single cell — an egg. Most snakes follow ...