Guinness World Records recently confirmed that Ibu Baron, a reticulated python ( Malayopython reticulatus ), is believed to ...

As we enter the Year of the Snake, we take the opportunity to revisit the starring roles of this mystic animal in art. Snake is the sixth animal sign in the 12-year zodiac cycle and based on ...

It slithers to pole position in the Chinese zodiac in 2025. Famous snake babies include Taylor Swift and J.K. Rowling. The reptile is revered or feared across global cultures. The first day of the ...

For thousands of years, snakes have been used in art, literature, religious texts and more. From Adam and Eve's temptation in the Garden of Eden to Medusa with her hair of snakes that turned anyone ...

The opening pages of the 1943 book The Little Prince recall how the narrator, as a child, once drew a picture not of a hat — as every adult insisted it was — but of a boa constrictor that had ...

Snakes in the animal kingdom -- Portrait of snakes / Roland Bauchot -- Origin & evolution of snakes / Jean-Claude Rage -- Diversity of snakes / Jean-Claude Rage -- Biology of snakes -- Nervous system ...

For Jeff Beane, the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences’ collection manager of amphibians and reptiles, it all started with the discovery of a particular road-killed snake in 1985. Nine more such ...

New research has uncovered a species of hook-toothed lizard that lived about 167 million years ago and has a confusing set of features seen in snakes and geckos—two very distant relatives. One of the ...