After viewing this short Instagram reel of a king cobra calmly drinking from a bowl of water, you might wonder how snakes ...

About 60 million years ago, long before humans and just after the dinosaurs vanished, a giant snake rose to the top of ...

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 ...

Scientists in India have unearthed fossil remains of Vasuki indicus, a prehistoric snake potentially reaching 49 feet in length, making it one of the ...

Buff-leaf hawkmoth larvae and pupae hiss by forcing air through spiracles, using breath-powered sounds to deter predators.

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Most people have a preferred way of communication - phone, text, email - but bare-nosed wombats have an unusual way of ...

With so many cuts and sizes, figuring out the best way to cook the kind of steak you've bought can get difficult pretty quick ...

A tiny 242-million-year-old fossil from Devon is shaking up scientists’ assumptions about the earliest members of the lizard lineage. Instead of the expected skull hinges and palate teeth typical of ...

Today, we bring you another focus challenge, inviting you to spend uninterrupted time looking at a piece of art. This painting — “The Two Fridas” — by Frida Kahlo was made in 1939, and keep in mind ...