PUXICO, Mo. — Most people don't like snakes, regardless of their role in nature. For eons, tales have been spun that have given people a general disdain for and a bad impression of snakes. Fear ...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF)-Summer through early fall is the peak season for snake movement and mating. Georgia and South Carolina are home to six venomous snake species. There’s the Copperhead, ...

Altering a protein in the neurons that coordinate a rattlesnake’s movement made a slow slither neuron more like a speedy rattle neuron, showing one way evolution can generate new ways of moving. In ...

DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah - Biologists at Dugway Proving Ground (DPG) support testing by setting their sights on the slithering species moving through the desert. Their aim is to protect local ...

Snakes have adapted to climb trees, leap across hot sand, and even swim through water — all without arms or legs. What’s their secret? Mike Bock This corn snake, shown here at the Smithsonian's ...

Researchers from IIT-Bombay and Harvard University have discovered a previously unreported S-shaped escape movement in young yellow anacondas. This rapid, non-planar motion, termed the "S-start," is ...

VIRGINIA (DC News Now) — It’s time to talk about sssnakes! As the slithering species start to emerge in Virginia, the Department of Wildlife Resources (DWR) is advising residents across the ...

A six-year-old boy has died after being bitten by a rattlesnake near Colorado Springs. Television station KKTV said the boy was bitten on July 5 at the Bluestem Prairie Open Space in ...