and have larger heads – and they have evolution to thank for that. Mount Chappell, a tiny island off of Tasmania in Australia, is home to a population of abnormally large tiger snakes.

(Read about a venomous snake species discovered in Australia.) “Really, how special is this ability in flying snakes?” says Jayne. “If we look at their close relatives, can we actually see ...

Mike Lee works for Flinders University and the South Australian museum ... documents rapid evolution in tiger snakes (Notechis scutatus). In less than a century, these snakes evolved the ability ...

"Evolution has equipped these giant lizards ... heart Chocolate warning as global supply under "real threat" "Australian snakes have developed potent venoms to counteract the lizards' defenses ...

The study discovered that some Australian elapid snakes, such as the death adder ... contribution to the literature on the potential for evolution of venom resistance," Dr Jackson, an ...

Field crews in Wyoming uncovered not one but four snake fossils so intact that their skulls, ribs, and tails lay in ...

We also closely studied the cellular makeup of the clitoris in Australian death adders ... We went on to examine nine different species of snakes representing the major branches of snake evolution.

A tourist has been killed by a snake bite in Australia ... Zdenek, a postdoctoral fellow at the Venom Evolution Lab at The University of Queensland, Australia, told Newsweek.

Kelly notes that comparing hemipenises and hemiclitorises of the same species could help get an idea of the organs’ function in snakes, and potentially reveal any back-and-forth evolution betwee ...