A brush with death is a hard way to learn how to survive a cottonmouth moccasin snake bite. Here’s what you need to know to ...

Stuart McKenzie of Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers in Australia added a second challenge to the mix by giving “bonus points” if you could name the species. Can you spot the deadly snake?

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

Three new species of king cobras have recently been identified, and the Field Museum’s collection has been harboring one of ...

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 ...

Eastern indigo snakes are notoriously difficult to find in the wild, making management of the species and their habitats ... a novel DNA extraction method to identify the eDNA left by the snake ...

It turned out to be a new species. Jakob Hallermann and Oliver Hawlitschek decided to try and sort out a “common” yet often misidentified group of snakes known as African House snakes ...

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 ...