Sea snakes keep washing up on Australia’s shores and scientists are unsure why - Researchers urge public not to handle ...

Sea snakes have been gradually adapting their underwater vision capabilities over the past 15 million years — an impressive biological feat according to scientists. (CN) — Sea snakes have been ...

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They can guard ancient tombs. Slither around a plane. And show up unexpectedly in your produce. Because snakes can be terrifying. And since the ocean is the most terrifying place on the planet, sea ...

Beach walkers were greeted with a grisly scene on Tuesday, with an enormous snake stopping them in their tracks during their early-morning stroll. They encountered a highly venomous stokes sea snake ...

A new paper in Genome Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, finds that the annulated sea snake, a species of venomous snake found in ocean waters around Australia and Asia, ...

A new study suggests male olive sea snakes in the Great Barrier Reef have been regularly approaching divers who they believe to be potential mates Associate Weekend/Evenings Editor, PEOPLE Highly ...

Venomous sea snakes that inhabit tropical coral reefs may be mistaking divers for potential mates. A team of researchers believes the snakes' bad eyesight is causing misdirected courting behavior.

The live three-foot yellow-bellied sea snake that washed ashore at Honoli’i Beach is "potentially lethal to humans" Shyla Watson is a digital news editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

A sea snake’s senses of sight and smell are greatly diminished underwater, and the added challenge of trying to stay buoyant makes underwater mating no easy feat. A new study has identified several ...

Scuba divers have often reported being attacked, unprovoked, by deadly Olive sea snakes. Now, however, scientists suspect these attacks might actually be the creatures' "misdirected" attempts at ...

A wildlife photographer this week shared a “super rare” photo showing a large sea snake breaching nearly clear of the surface at the Great Barrier Reef in the Coral Sea. The eye-catching image caused ...