Snakes are everywhere in our legends and mythology. Yet for most of us, our blood runs cold whenever we encounter these strangely undulating, scaly tubes of muscle slithering through the leaf litter.

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Q. We found a snake (photo attached) in Charleston, South Carolina, but have been unable to identify it from a field guide or the Web. Is it an exotic species? A. I get this query every year and send ...

A remarkable fossil of the Cretaceous-period snake Tametara mirim in Brazil unveils new insights into snake evolution.

The intriguing Australian sleepy lizard has raised new questions about vertebrate immunity after the surprise discovery of the evolutionary disappearance of genes needed for some T cell production in ...

If you have a fear of snakes, you’re not alone. Studies show ophidiophobia is one of the most common of all animal phobias, coming in just behind arachnophobia – the fear of spiders. So, when you’re ...