When two employees at the East Bay Vivarium in Berkeley, California, pulled a baby snake from the incubator seven months ago, ...

The well-known copperhead is often mistaken for lesser-known species of nonvenomous snakes. One common snake that is ...

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Field crews in Wyoming uncovered not one but four snake fossils so intact that their skulls, ribs, and tails lay in ...

Biologists tracking a big python found it dead, chewed up and buried. They launched into a CSI-like investigation that ...

Copperheads also feature an hourglass-shaped pattern on their bodies — from the head down to the tail. When curled up, this camouflage can make them look like a pile of leaves. And like most other ...