A vivid green pitviper hiding in Sichuan’s misty mountains has been revealed as a completely new species. Scientists had ...

Snakes may well be one of nature's greatest predators, capable of eating whole deer or even crocodiles, but just as impressive is that they can go months, or even a whole year, without a single meal.

A slender green snake, overlooked for years in a Brazilian museum collection, has now been formally recognised as a new species. Measuring 34 inches, the reptile stands out because of a bold black ...

Scientists have recently described a new snake from Myanmar that’s turning the usual idea of how we identify species on its ...

Nearly 100 million years ago, snakes weren’t the sleek, limbless creatures we know today—they still had hind legs and even a ...