Humans may be genetically predisposed to fear contact with snakes. But we have a lot to learn from them.

As Michigan's weather warms up in the coming days, some of its cold-blooded residents will be slithering out of their winter ...

The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) has issued a stern warning about the northern snakehead fish. This predatory ...

That’s the idea behind [skhackett]’s Slither, the visual pedometer. Although Slither uses the Fit Bit app, no actual Fit Bit is required — great news for those of us who don’t like to wear ...

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A new book explains much of what is known about these diverse animals, including pleasure and sex—as well as the downsides of ...

One day, the snake escaped from its terrarium in the garage. It didn’t try to hide or make a jailbreak to the great outdoors. We found it lying in the one small square of sunlight on the garage floor ...

While G.I. Joe -adjacent cartoon metal band Cold Slither “shook the world” a few weeks back with a revamped version of their eponymous Eighties-era metal anthem, the hard rock mercenaries have now ...

He’d knock off the textbooks piled on top his vivarium and slither up the pipes in pursuit of the shrieking parrots. But Lisa would get in the tub with him, and he’d swim around and then ...