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A reconstruction of Breugnathair elgolensis
Evolution

Cat-sized Jurassic reptile had the jaws of a python

By Andrew Paul

Cobra on plain background
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

It took half a century to solve the mystery of Missouri’s deadly snake panic 

By Popular Science Team

Australian major skink
Wildlife

Australian lizard mutated to resist snake venom

By Andrew Paul

Burmese python on ground
Wildlife

Pythons can devour bones thanks to unique stomach cells

By Andrew Paul

Portrait of a Southern Pacific Rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis helleri).
Wildlife

Spring rain could mean more rattlesnake bites

By Andrew Paul

a black and white snake with two heads
Wildlife

Rare two-headed snake is surprisingly thriving

By Margherita Bassi

Coiled rattlesnake near flowering bush
Land

Rattlesnakes may evolve specialized venoms

By Andrew Paul

cobra snake closeup
AI

Scientists use AI to create completely new anti-venom proteins

By Lauren Leffer

A nearly 15-foot-long Burmese python devours a 77-pound deer in Florida.
Wildlife

Burmese pythons stretch their mouths even wider than we thought possible

By Andrew Paul

a snake with an open mouth and visible fangs
Wildlife

New tool helps scientists identify venomous snakes

By Laura Baisas

a python with a wide open mouth swallows a white rat whole
Wildlife

How pythons can eat such giant meals

By Laura Baisas

a close up of a burmese python.
Animals

The 2024 Florida Python Challenge begins

By Laura Baisas

Nubian spitting cobra (
Animals

Breakthrough cobra venom antidote discovered

By Andrew Paul

Bag filled with smuggled snakes
Animals

Chinese Customs caught man with 104 snakes in his pants

By Andrew Paul

Katie Tyson, 18, first runner up for the Miss Snake Charmer pageant poses for a portrait in a snake pit during the 2021 Rattlesnake Roundup at the Nolan County Coliseum in Sweetwater, Texas on March 13, 2021. - The town of Sweetwater holds the largest rattlesnake roundup in the world, launched in 1958 with the sole purpose of getting rid of rattlesnakes, killing an average of 5,000 pounds of snake each year. (Photo by PAUL RATJE / AFP) (Photo by PAUL RATJE/AFP via Getty Images)
Wildlife

Despite criticism, the last of the rattlesnake roundups hang on

By Ted Willians / Yale Environment 360

a snake spits venom out of its mouth
Wildlife

Snake venom’s deadly secrets decoded with fake blood vessels

By Laura Baisas