How big they are: Can range from 4 inches (10 centimeters) to over 30 feet (9 meters) There are about 4,000 different snake species in the world today. They occupy a wide range of habitats ...

Under the cover of darkness, a 1-foot-long predator moved along a branch in the mountains of eastern China. Its yellow eyes scanned the surrounding landscape for its next meal, but it wasn’t the only ...

Glanville wanted to find a shared molecular site across multiple venom toxins from different snake species that he could target.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission seeks the public's assistance in documenting the elusive rainbow snake, ...

California is home to 50 different species of snakes — including seven species of rattlesnakes, according to the California ...

There are 48 different snake species in Oklahoma. This means that the chances of running into one of these slithering reptiles are relatively high, both in and out of the water. Of those snakes ...

Scientists have created a broadly effective antivenom using the blood of a Wisconsin man who has spent years exposing himself to deadly snakebites from black mambas, taipans, cobras and many others.