Unlike most other animals, snakes do not have limbs to help them get from one place to another. Instead, they slither — but there's a little more to snake anatomy than how they move. Finely tuned for ...

High in the forest canopy, one genus of snake learned how to solve the problem of flight without wings. Here’s how, according ...

Astonishing flying snakes of Asia defy gravity without wings, launching from trees and flattening their bodies to glide.

All summer long, you've been asking your Mom for a pet. She keeps saying "no," and you totally understand why. She thinks she'll end up taking care of it and feeding it. She says she'll have to clean ...

An international team of scientists has for the first time provided a detailed anatomical description of the female snake clitoris, an advance that could lead to better understanding of reptile ...

We have a fair understanding of star formation, from the interstellar matter to the diffuse clouds whose gravitational contraction gives birth to stars. But observations of distant galaxies have ...

At first glance it's just a hole surrounded by aspens in glowing spring leaf. Then you notice the ground is moving. From every crack in the limestone bedrock, snakes slither by the thousands, some ...