Snakes, for some, are the stuff of nightmares. For others, they’re beloved pets or fascinating research subjects. They’re classified in the suborder Serpentes and are related to lizards and other ...

A pattern of xuanwu, a Chinese mythical creature depicted as a snake and a tortoise on an eaves tile from the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220). The symbolic turquoise inlaid bronze plaques unearthed from ...

Wrinkles at the base of snakes' fangs that originally existed to hold their teeth in place evolved to spurt venom to kill prey, a study shows. Experts in Australia studied several venomous snake ...

“How’d you get those newfangled teeth?” hissed the petite garter snake to the venomous cobra. “Same way that you got yours,” cobra replied. All fangs — no matter their size, shape or position — ...

Fossilized teeth from an ancient reptile are revealing the way the venom injection system in modern snakes first evolved. The research, reported in the journal Naturwissenschaften 1, focused on ...

In the mythic geography book Shan Hai Jing (Classic of Mountains and Seas), many gods hold snakes or hang snakes around their ears, or have a snake’s body, as a mark of their extraordinary abilities, ...