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Large green anaconda in grass

Anacondas have been huge for over 12 million years

A close-up photograph of a vibrant yellow snake, coiled around a horizontal brown branch. The snake, a white-lipped island pit viper, has reddish accents on its tail and is looking directly at the camera with large, bright eyes, set against a softly blurred green and blue background.

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How do snakes move? It’s not all slithering.

By Clarissa Brincat

Close up of glossy black wolf snake

Endangered Species

New wolf snake honors the late Steve Irwin

Side-by-side of a coiled green mamba and a white llama

The secret ingredient in a snake antivenom? Llamas.

a rattlesnake with an open mouth bearing its fangs

How snake bites really work

By Laura Baisas

A reconstruction of Breugnathair elgolensis

Cat-sized Jurassic reptile had the jaws of a python

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

Australian lizard mutated to resist snake venom

Burmese python on ground

Pythons can devour bones thanks to unique stomach cells

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

Spring rain could mean more rattlesnake bites

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

Nubian spitting cobra (

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