Picture an animal that huddles up with others when stressed, babysits its young, hangs out around relatives, and gathers in big groups every year. Did you imagine a rattlesnake? For a long time, ...

“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 ...

They look, move and even smell like the kind of furry Everglades marsh rabbit a Burmese python would love to eat. But these bunnies are robots meant to lure the giant invasive snakes out of their ...

What's it like to get bit by a venomous snake? "It's like a bee sting times a thousand," Tim Friede says. Friede would know. Over the past few decades, he's let himself be bitten over two hundred ...

Six venomous snake species are native to Florida, including three rattlesnake species. Snakes are most active during warmer months, starting in the late spring and carrying on throughout the summer.

Arizona has 13 species of rattlesnakes and one coral snake species. Snakes are most active from March to October. Rattlesnakes have distinct features like a triangular head and vertical pupils.

Do you ever wish you could just crawl out of your own skin? Snakes are some of the few creatures on Earth that actually can. Dozens of times throughout its life, a snake slithers out of its old skin ...

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Ball pythons were long assumed to be solitary, but scientists discovered the snakes in captivity prefer each others’ company when given the chance to live socially. By Asher Elbein The ball python ...