Snakes have adapted to climb trees, leap across hot sand, and even swim through water — all without arms or legs. What’s their secret? Mike Bock This corn snake, shown here at the Smithsonian's ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. It may not come as a surprise that snakes move quickly, as ...

Pictures showing an Arabian sand boa that looks like "a child's best effort at drawing a snake" has charmed the internet. "Today I learned about the Arabian sand boa," wrote the Today Years Old ...

NARCISSE, Manitoba -- 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 slither snakes by ...