A smooth-scaled creature pregnant with 12 babies slithered through a wetland in a forest in Vietnam — straight into a fishing net set by nearby residents. Creatures from the net were eventually handed ...
Today, July 16, is World Snake Day, and you might be wondering which snakes you could encounter around Fayetteville in the wild. The notoriously misunderstood creatures help control the insect and ...
LAWRENCE — A new University of Kansas genomic investigation of a group of unheralded but unique “mud snakes” from Southeast Asia is rewriting the evolutionary history of this family, named the ...
In much of the eastern United States, it’s not uncommon to spot a snake slithering through the leaves, crossing a trail, or hiding near your shed. But knowing whether that snake is venomous or ...
A snake found itself between the beak of an American bittern but refused to give up, according to a photographer who captured the “incredible moment.” Elise Kitchens says she was visiting Brazos Bend ...
Q. You recently wrote about how some turtles always try to bite, whereas others almost never do. Is the same true of snakes? Do some snakes not bite people even when held? A. Any snake is capable of ...
A new species of mud snake was found after specimens were caught from a rubber plantation and a forest wetland in Vietnam. Photo by Nguyen SN, Le MV, Lathrop A, Vo T-D-H, Murphy RW, Che J from ...