While most snakes retreat deep underground to avoid subzero temperatures, some populations of Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis ...

Garter snakes can survive being frozen solid for hours. Here’s how evolution, biochemistry and behavior have allowed them to ...

This ancient, leg-bearing snake is rewriting the story of how serpents slithered, and sometimes walked, their way through evolutionary history.

Snakes don’t bite and chew like we do. They swallow their food whole, sometimes animals many times bigger than their heads and rely on a digestive system that’s radically different from ours. From ...

Snakes may not be known for wagging tails or greeting their owners at the door, but some species are thought to be ...