A four-year study from the University of Georgia says infections may spell doom for some snake species.

Reptiles aren’t typically the first animals considered in the face of fungal infections. Although mammals are more ...

DNA from a 160-year-old museum snake specimen revealst the Himalayan pit viper is five separate species, including three new ...

Snakes are facing extinction due to deadly diseases, warns new research. Rattlesnakes are among the most vulnerable among ...

In the foothills of the Ecuadorean Amazon, a 101-year-old farmer and a young scientist turned an amateur collection into a ...

Florida's snake population is not the problem; human interaction is. With 44 native species, only six are venomous.

More than one hundred snake species and subspecies live in Texas. However, not all of them are venomous. For the majority of species, the only harm that they pose to humans is being shy and preferring ...