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a black and white snake with two heads

Rare two-headed snake is surprisingly thriving

By Margherita Bassi

Coiled rattlesnake near flowering bush

Rattlesnakes may evolve specialized venoms

cobra snake closeup

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.

Burmese pythons stretch their mouths even wider than we thought possible

a snake with an open mouth and visible fangs

New tool helps scientists identify venomous snakes

By Laura Baisas

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

How pythons can eat such giant meals

By Laura Baisas

a close up of a burmese python.

The 2024 Florida Python Challenge begins

By Laura Baisas

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Breakthrough cobra venom antidote discovered

Bag filled with smuggled snakes

Chinese Customs caught man with 104 snakes in his pants

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)

Despite criticism, the last of the rattlesnake roundups hang on

By Ted Willians / Yale Environment 360

a snake spits venom out of its mouth

Snake venom’s deadly secrets decoded with fake blood vessels

By Laura Baisas