Ophidiophobia (the phobia of snakes) is one of the more common phobias psychologists treat today. Some researchers posit that ...

Snakes strike at black-out speeds . We know snakes are capable of striking in the blink of an eye. But in reality, they strike much faster than that.

With over 4,000 distinct species of snakes on the planet, it makes sense that some have adapted to overcome their limited mobility compared to their nimble prey, such as rats and rabbits. These ...

Snakes have adapted to climb trees, leap across hot sand, and even swim through water — all without arms or legs. What’s ...

The snakes were discovered among the invasive python population in Florida. While examining the invasive python population in Florida, researchers stumbled across the unexpected: a kind of hybrid ...

The ability to spot venomous snakes may have played a major role in the evolution of monkeys, apes and humans, according to a new hypothesis by Lynne Isbell, professor of anthropology at UC Davis.

TOPEKA, Kan.—Eva Horne, a Kansas State University assistant professor of biology, is keeping her eye on a copperhead snake that's been living in her house the past several months. The copperhead ...

A marine snake has evolved to see colour after losing the ability millions of years ago. It is one of only two reptiles known to have regained this type of colour vision. Over the last 25 million ...

KSU studies snake's ability to clone itself. ... Known as parthenogenesis, the female snake reproduced without her eggs without being fertilized by the sperm of a male copperhead.

An evolutionary arms race between early snakes and mammals triggered the development of improved vision and large brains in primates, a radical new theory suggests. The idea, proposed by Lynne ...