Unlike most other animals, snakes do not have limbs to help them get from one place to another. Instead, they slither — but there's a little more to snake anatomy than how they move. Finely tuned for ...

Quick Take The cobra’s tongue is primarily chemosensory, not used for lapping while drinking. Snakes have sponge-like mouths ...

An international team of scientists has for the first time provided a detailed anatomical description of the female snake clitoris, an advance that could lead to better understanding of reptile ...

A newly identified fossil snake reveals clues about early advanced snake evolution. Its mixed traits highlight an ancient branch of the caenophidian family tree. More than forty years after it was ...

Snakes get rid of waste in the same way that other animals do. Once everything has been completely digested, the waste goes through an opening near the end of the tail. However, because snakes’ bodies ...

We have a fair understanding of star formation, from the interstellar matter to the diffuse clouds whose gravitational contraction gives birth to stars. But observations of distant galaxies have ...