Love them or hate them, snakes are biologically fascinating. This image shows the skeleton of a corn snake. Its flexible spine and jaws allow it to eat animals like mice and rats that you would never ...

Of all the mysterious things that wash up on beaches, these long skeleton-like coils are easily among the most bizarre. It’s not uncommon to come across what are sometimes called “fisherman's soap” or ...

Snake skeletons are just as regionalized as lizard skeletons, despite loss of limbs and an increase in the number of vertebrae. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of ...

Paleontologists have made a groundbreaking discovery in western Wyoming: the nearly complete fossils of a 34-million-year-old snake, Hibernophis breithaupti. This extraordinary find reshapes our ...

The first baby snake fossil ever found shows that early serpents settled into more diverse habitats than previously thought. Snake skeletons found in marine and river sediments reveal that snakes had ...

Strange “snake skeletons” recently found coiled up on Outer Banks beaches have been identified not as animal remains, but as egg casings, according to the National Park Service. What kind of animal ...