Forget the old folk tales about snakes hypnotizing their prey. The tentacled snake from South East Asia has developed a more effective technique. The small water snake has found a way to startle its ...

Understanding the behaviour of snakes can be both intriguing and challenging, particularly for those new to herpetology or keeping these reptiles as pets. Among their many unique traits, one behaviour ...

Two red-tailed coral snakes have been spotted fighting over food for the first time ever. The two extremely venomous snakes have been photographed feasting on the same caecilian. This is the ...

New research indicates that, relative to their size, the snakes that can gulp down the largest meals are harmless and three feet long. By Kate Golembiewski Snakes can’t really unhinge their jaws, but ...

A huge snake that had recently swallowed a cat or a possum whole was found digesting its prey under a car in Australia. The carpet python was found at a home in Burpengary, a town in the Moreton Bay ...

When a snake displays its fangs, it’s showing off one of evolution’s greatest weapons. This is because snake venom is not a ...

Snakes that constrict and then swallow enormous prey have evolved a way to keep themselves from suffocating while they do it. When the scaley coils closest to the snake's head are super busy squeezing ...

A snake in Denmark has been spotted attempting to consume an oversized hare that's 10 times larger than itself. The chance observation of an adult female common European adder killing and intending to ...