Snakes climbing trees may look oddly satisfying, but the behavior reveals a serious hunting advantage built into their anatomy. Using powerful muscles, friction, and body control, they can scale bark ...

While snakes and ladders is purely a game of chance, there is a way to add some strategy, says mathematician Peter Rowlett ...

There are other genes and enhancers related to limb loss in snakes. One of the genes involved is known as the Sonic hedgehog ...

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Discovered in England, this ancient creature has no modern match, and its secrets have only just been uncovered.

Modern anacondas and pythons are massive, but fossil evidence shows they are not even close to the largest snakes to ever ...

Four million years ago, the landscape of Northern Greece was the territory of a huge snake, a true biological titan.

This ancient, leg-bearing snake is rewriting the story of how serpents slithered, and sometimes walked, their way through evolutionary history.

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Millions of years before modern Britain took shape, snakes moved across a warm and humid landscape filled with forests, rivers, and wetlands. Fossils from southern England now reveal one such snake, ...

The Asylum is back at it again, and this time they’re slithering straight into giant snake territory. The studio has released the trailer for The Anacondas, a painfully obvious riff on the Anaconda ...

The room we are in is locked. It is windowless and lit from above by a fluorescent bulb. In the hallway outside—two stories beneath the city of London—attendants in dark suits patrol silently, giving ...