A Churah Valley Kukri (Oligodon churahensis), which shares similarities with the common Kukri snake, a stripy, egg-eating reptile that isn’t venomous. (Mirza et al.) Turns out Instagram isn’t just ...

The discovery of a rare Cretaceous fossil that could have been a missing link in the evolution of modern snakes made headlines in 2015. It was dubbed Tetrapodophis amplectus (“four-footed serpent”) ...

It’s a Christmas miracle nobody got hurt. While admiring what a good job they had done putting up and decorating their Christmas tree, a family noticed something strange poking its head out from ...

The green anaconda, an aquatic snake often found in South America's Amazon region, is the largest of its kind — measuring nearly 21 feet in length, according to experts. Now, the snake behemoth has ...

A curious Australian toddler chasing a deadly snake led to the discovery of a snake's nest with 110 eggs from multiple lethal snakes in the family's yard. Snake catchers from the Wild Conservation ...

Locked down at home during the pandemic last year, a postgraduate student in India’s Himalayan region photographed a snake in his backyard that experts had never before seen. Uploaded to Instagram, ...

Michael d’Estries is a co-founder of the green celebrity blog Ecorazzi. He has been writing about culture, science, and sustainability since 2005. His work has appeared on Business Insider, and CNN.