Lots of snakes can detect heat, but only three families evolved true infrared targeting. Meet the most iconic predator from ...

Discovered in Barbados in 2006, this worm-sized snake went misidentified for a century — and now, it may disappear before ...

This fossil is 13 million years older than any ant fossil found before—and reveals a sophisticated predator that lived alongside the dinosaurs.

The intriguing new species, spanning around four feet and one inch in length, was found to have a "matte black" coloring.

Intrigued by this “unusual” change in color, researchers caught several snakes, took a closer look at them, tested their DNA and realized they’d discovered a new species: Trimeresurus cryptographicus, ...