Two weeks ago, NPR reported on a group of Pentecostals in Appalachia who handle snakes in church to prove their faith in God. The story got us thinking: Why are the handlers bitten so rarely, and why ...
An ancient species of snake which lived about 47 million years ago may have been one of the biggest snakes to have ever lived, research suggests. The newly identified animal, dubbed Vasuki Indicus, ...
Not as rare as we once thought, snake cannibalism may be essential to their evolution.