Female snakes can produce their offspring in several different ways. Many people assume that all snakes lay eggs, but the ...

The same technology used in COVID-19 vaccines could help prevent muscle damage from snakebites, according to a study ...

According to researchers, the adapted treatment could help to prevent muscle damage and permanent physical impacts.

A camera in Colorado reveals how rattlesnake mothers protect their young, showing snakes in a new light and changing old ...

Studies of insulin, blood sugar and diabetes in other animals such as fish and dogs have already saved millions of lives and could lead to new treatments for type 1 and type 2 diabetes.

But there’s nothing supernatural about how snakes move. So how exactly do they get around without legs? They do it by ...

Dusk starts to settle across the landscape. The dirt trail, lit by the last licks of sunlight, winds through the trees. The ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. Between clinks of glasses and the hum of conversation, featured reptiles drew a ...

People bitten by a black mamba, a venomous snake that lives in central and southern Africa, have just hours to live. The snake’s venom disrupts nerves and muscles, and eventually paralyses the lungs ...

Reptiles don’t just pee, they crystallize their waste. Researchers found that snakes and other reptiles form tiny uric acid spheres, a water-saving evolutionary trick. This discovery could illuminate ...

“They are the ones that have to be able to strike as quickly as possible,” says Alistair Evans, a zoologist at Monash University in Melbourne. It typically takes mammals between 60 to 400 milliseconds ...

High-speed video helped researchers to get close-ups of the attack strategies of three snake families. By Ari Daniel Venomous snakes inhabit a different perceptual world than we do. “Before the mammal ...