He and his colleagues pored over the complete genomic data from five species of snakes in the Elapidae family – including the blue-banded sea snake, cobras and mambas – comparing them to see ...

A banded sea snake swimming freely. Some species of venomous sea snakes lost their ability to see in color when the moved from the land to the ocean about 110 million years ago. “The ancestral ...

A novel modified cephalic vascular network that provides the blue-banded sea snake (Hydrophis cyanocinctus) with a complementary supply of oxygen to the brain during submersion has been described ...

Banded sea snakes come to the waters near Malaysia, coming ashore to beaches like Snake Island to breed. They spend most of their time underwater where it is less likely to become someone’s next ...

A banded sea snake. Getty Images/iStockphoto. In order to avoid attacks by spurned male snakes, the researchers encouraged divers to “keep still and avoid retaliation.

But, unlike "true" sea snakes, banded sea kraits are only semi-aquatic, emerging from the water at 10-day intervals to lay eggs, shed their skin, and digest food.

“I had to spend the entire time with that sea snake, just being there with it on its own terms to finally be there to make that image,” Yuyan tells PopSci. The cover of National Geographic’s ...

A banded sea snake, venomous and lethal for people, swims nearby, unsuspecting that its day is about the go in Watch an Eagle Hunt a Snake With Incredible Precision Skip to main content ...