One of North America's rarest snakes is vanishing from forests it once thrived in, and the strategy biologists are using to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. A herpetologist reveals the shocking discovery of one of ...

Most people are aware of snakes only because of their characteristic slithering motion from side to side. Not all snakes ...

A snake pulled from inside another snake's stomach was a species unknown to science — Cenaspis aenigma!

A newly discovered snake species, Hibernophis breithaupti, provides rare insight into the social behavior of snakes and fills some gaps in our knowledge of the evolution of boas, or boidae. The ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service added three of Florida's rarest reptiles to its list of endangered species.

A rare snake discovered in the western Himalayas has drawn global attention after being named in honour of Leonardo DiCaprio.

Iowa has 28 species of snakes, five of which are venomous. Snakes form a key part of the ecosystems they inhabit, helping to keep populations of mice, squirrels, other small animals and even insects ...

Leonardo DiCaprio is a snake. A newly discovered species of a toothy snake in the Western Himalayas has been named in the actor’s honor, according to an “ongoing study” published in the journal Nature ...

A new species of wolf snake was discovered from the Great Nicobar Islands, India. Researchers R. S. Naveen and S. R. Chandramouli of the Pondicherry University, Zeeshan A. Mirza of the Max Planck ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has listed three native Florida reptile species as endangered. The Florida Keys mole skink, the Key neck ring snake and the rim snake are now protected under the ...