Male sea snakes were more likely than females to approach divers, particularly during mating season, according to the study. In some cases they would flick their tongue at the diver, and in 13 ...

simply stay calm and allow the snake to “investigate” you “with its tongue.” Shine also noted that sea snakes move so fast, you probably won’t be able to get away anyway, and trying to ...

Any excess salt is expelled this way and then flicked out via the snake’s tongue. If sea snakes don’t find water in time, they can actually die from thirst. That sounds a little odd ...

The roughly 60 known species of sea snakes have nevertheless developed an impressive array of adaptations to marine life. These include salt glands under the tongue, nostrils that face upwards and ...

T he animal world is full of contradictions, from tiny mouse-deer that are neither mice nor deer, to vampire squid that ...

That's a yellow-bellied sea snake, and it's highly venomous ... the researchers could see the dolphin's lips opening, tongue withdrawing, and throat expanding. They think all these subtle ...

Some sea krait species spend most of their lives ... distinguish between different odour chemicals. Their forked tongue helps the snake determine the direction of the scent; in the same way ...

About 100 yards offshore, we dropped down into clear warm water at 40 feet deep right into the middle of six large, highly venomous sea snakes that were getting ready to breed. Kauai High School ...

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 ...

Donor-Advised Funds Support KQED by using your donor-advised fund to make a charitable gift. It’s the most infamous tongue in the world. To us, the snake’s forked tongue means danger and deceit. But ...

Over the last 25 million years though, more than 60 species of snakes have made themselves at home in brighter, more colourful marine environments. One of these is the venomous, blue-banded sea ...