Snakes are exclusively carnivorous, meaning that they only eat other animals — and in some cases, eggs. Their diets range ...

In the study of why and how animals look the way they do, color is king—at least, the range of color humans can see. A ...

Vasuki indicus, a prehistoric snake fossil discovered in Gujarat, India, measures an astounding 49 feet in length, surpassing ...

The fossilized skeleton of the newly discovered snake species Hibernophis breithaupti, which lived 38 million years ago in what is now western Wyoming, reveals insights into the evolution and ...

Understanding the evolution of vision in snakes, such as this pipe snake (Anilius scytale), could improve our knowledge of snake origins and the evolution of the ...

A Toolbox for the Study of Extinct Reptiles Jan. 8, 2025 — Evolution has resulted in the ... has found that the rapid detection of snakes by monkeys is because of the presence of snake scales ...

Named after the mythical serpent Vasuki from Hindu mythology, it belonged to the now-extinct Madtsoiidae family, a group of ...

One well-documented example of an arms race adaptation is the potent poison in the skin of the newt Taricha granulosa, which is food for the garter snake. Over time, some genetic variants of the ...