Smithsonian Magazine

Scientists Once Thought This Snail Was Extinct. But a Surprising Discovery and Decade-Long Conservation Effort Revived the Species

In the early 1990s, scientists worried that the greater Bermuda land snail—found only on the North Atlantic Ocean archipelago ...

Python Nicknamed 'The Baroness' Breaks Record for World's Longest Snake with Over 23 Feet of Scales

A reticulated python found in Indonesia broke the Guinness World Record for the longest, scientifically measured wild snake ...