snakes

Learn more about how to identify snake holes, including what signs to look for and which snakes are most likely to be slithering in your backyard.

Many alligators were found in Alachua County‘s sewage system.

Alligators living in the sewers isn’t just an urban legend.

This ancient symbol, also called the Staff of Hermes, depicts two snakes intertwining around a stick that is capped by wings. It’s used as a medical logo, but for almost all its roughly 5000-year history, the caduceus had nothing to do with medicine.

It seems pants are a common place for smugglers to conceal animals.

A semi-accurate rendering of a crocodile.

From the “dark politicks” of cuttlefish to the “prodigious bigness” of snakes, here are 10 accounts of the first times explorers encountered new animals, foods, and more.

Opening a piece of unclaimed baggage could mean finding some shoes, or it could mean finding live snakes.

You may have been taught the old cowboy trick of applying a tourniquet and using a blade to cut the bite wound to suck out the poison. It looks dramatic, but does it really work?

Ireland: Come for the Guinness, stay for the lack of snakes.

Legend tells of St. Patrick using the power of his faith to drive all of Ireland’s snakes into the sea. It’s an impressive image, but there’s no way it could have happened.

Despite being the most venomous snake in the world, the inland taipan isn't necessarily the deadliest.

A recent study looked at hundreds of records of spiders killing and eating snakes—even snakes many times their size.

A 62-year-old female python at the St. Louis Zoo hasn't been in contact with a male in decades, but she was somehow able to reproduce this summer.

The 'Dendrelaphis' genus of snakes in Australia can propel themselves through the air, bridging the gap between trees.

The “Fantastic Grandmothers” volunteered to use their New Caledonia snorkeling trips to photograph the venomous reptiles.

You can follow African rock python Squeeze’s journey to motherhood on Smithsonian Channel's new special ‘Queen of the Pythons.’

Photographs show the struggle between the olive python and the freshwater crocodile—two of Australia's most impressive reptilian predators.

It's a myth that these venomous vipers will always shake its rattle before attacking, but a rattlesnake bite still packs a punch.

Grace Olive Wiley was an unconventional herpetologist whose love affair with snakes—and resistance to safety standards—would end up costing her her life.