Eating your own kind might not sound like a winning survival strategy, but cannibalism is surprisingly common in the animal kingdom – especially in snakes. A new study has taken a deep dive into the ...

Wild predators must regularly hunt or forage to survive. While many animals graze or scavenge, large constrictor snakes rely ...

If you got eaten by a snake, it could take a whole month to digest you... but it would at least leave your hair ...

A recent study compiled over 500 incidents of cannibalism in more than 200 species of snakes, revealing that the behavior is ...

Researchers have identified Yakacoatl tlalli as a nonvenomous, subterranean new snake species from the Balsas River basin.

A new study reveals that numerous snake species are more cannibalistic than previously thought.

David Graves, a hiker in Central Alabama, had one such encounter when he ran into a massive rattlesnake slithering across the ...

Meet the slow worm slithering across the garden like a tiny liquid shadow. A legless lizard, experts say, that somehow manages to fool everyone. Kids .

Brown tree snakes, which are invasive in Guam, have caused local extinctions of bird and bat species. Eradication efforts are ...

Each culture that celebrates the Lunar New Year has traditions passed down from generation to generation that are thought to bring good luck. NPR readers share theirs.