Five previously unknown tree-dwelling snake species, including one named in honor of Leonardo DiCaprio's mother, were found ...

Scientists recently split the king cobra into four separate species — as if one wasn’t terrifying enough. Here’s what these ...

Invasive northern snakeheads can “walk” on land, breathe air and survive out of water for several days, and they also compete ...

Hungry snake caught swallowing another ... this behavior does not typically include bigger snakes because when snakes do eat each other, which is common, it is normally the bigger snakes who ...

“They fill different roles in the food web depending on the type of snake and where you're at,” he said. “All snakes are predators of one thing or another. Timber rattlesnakes, copperheads, rat snakes ...

Stuart McKenzie said it’s all too common for encounters like this to happen early in the morning and for the snake to eat pet birds when nobody is around to prevent it. Coastal carpet pythons can be ...