Giant snakes are thriving and keeping ecosystems balanced. Recent online videos show these reptiles in various habitats.

An extinct snake has slithered its way out of obscurity over four decades after its discovery. The newly described species of ...

A tenth of a second is all a viper snake needs to land a bite. In Paris, a team filmed hundreds of venomous snakes and mapped their strike speed in 3D to see exactly how they do it. The work tracked ...

“They are the ones that have to be able to strike as quickly as possible,” says Alistair Evans, a zoologist at Monash University in Melbourne. It typically takes mammals between 60 to 400 milliseconds ...

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They may not be as visible in fall, but Georgia will always be home to a wide variety of snakes. Some may be smaller than your dog, but others may be bigger than you. Here's what we know about our ...