From venomous spines to spike-covered genitalia, creatures around the world have unique features that set them apart.

Leptophis mystacinus, or the mustache parrot snake, was discovered in the Cerrado, a massive savanna of mixed grasslands, shrublands, rocky outcrops and forests known for its biodiversity, according ...

Science splits the iconic king cobra into four distinct species, reshaping our understanding of venomous snake diversity and ...

An olive-colored snake that was kept in captivity for 20 years has revealed a magnificent discovery which led to the ...

"There's just a lot we don't know, and this is sort of the first step in getting a better grasp on what this biodiversity ...

New Snake Species in Ethiopia: Back in the 1980s, a biologist visited Ethiopia and discovered an unusual olive-colored snake. Unfortunately, the snake didn’t survive, and the biologist preserved it as ...

Wednesday was the first day of the Year of the Snake, an animal with special attributes in Chinese culture, but beyond the ...

For a long time, the king cobra was recognized as the world’s longest venomous snake, a single species with a vast geographic range. However, recent studies have revealed that this perception ...

The new species of African house snake is known from only one specimen, a roughly 10-inch long juvenile snake caught “in high-altitude semiarid” part of Somaliland, the study said. It has a ...