California’s diverse climate and sprawling urban areas have made the western state an unexpected hotspot for non-native ...

Most of us know a snake plant (Sansevieria or Dracaena trifasciata) for its ability to thrive indoors, near-immortal ...

One afternoon, you read a paper title and pause, not because it is complex, but because it sounds wrong. Right-handed snakes.

Snakes represent one of evolution’s most optimized body plans built around efficiency rather than excess. By eliminating ...

A decade after tour guide Basil P. Das stumbled upon a small black-and-beige snake while working on his coffee farm in ...

Professional python hunters spotted something strange happening in a South Florida pond. They soon realized they might be the ...

First published in 1992, “An Introduction to Snakes of the Region of North Carolina and Virginia," has been revised with ...

There’s nothing like that first spring salad you’ve been babying for weeks. And there’s nothing like walking out one damp ...

Nature is full of surprises, but few are as fascinating as hybrid animals, creatures born from crossing two different species ...

These underground rodents are the first mammals found to actively choose air with lower-than-normal oxygen levels. Their ...

Geckos are known as solitary creatures, but according to some scientists, these little guys look out for one another. As you ...

Tracking a single male python through protected wetlands led biologists to one of the largest breeding females captured this year.