How Nature's Most Maligned Creatures Illuminate Our World," talks about the cultural significance of the slinky reptiles.

Goodwill Donations workers got more than they bargained for after unpacking a donation box filled with books and one four-foot slithering snake. The Stafford Sheriff's Department in Virginia ...

Timber rattlesnakes are the most common rattlesnake in Alabama. Also known as the canebreak rattlesnake, it’s found throughout the state, though it’s significantly less common on the Gulf Coast, ...

The skull of a snake is constructed of many thin struts ... Read more in Giants of the Lost World, which is available from Smithsonian Books. Visit Smithsonian Books’ website to learn ...

The book’s anger might be a great deal more effective if Author Telfer, who herself spent six years as a clerk in a state institution, did not keep abandoning the snake pit for the passion pit.