For thousands of years, snakes have been used in art, literature, religious texts and more. From Adam and Eve's temptation in the Garden of Eden to Medusa with her hair of snakes that turned anyone ...

Ancient England snake fossil Paradoxophidion helps explain how modern snakes evolved during warm humid Eocene period.

A strange little snake fossil found on England’s south coast has finally revealed its secrets—more than 40 years after it was ...

Measuring 48 feet long and weighing in at 2,500 pounds, Titanoboa, the world's largest snake, could crush and devour a crocodile. Discovered in a fossil bed deep within Colombia's Cerrejón coal mine, ...

Chance Duncan, a teacher at Russellville High School in Russellville, Arkansas, has been making conservation efforts since 2016 to repopulate Louisiana pine snakes, a rare species. Having some success ...

The '1989' singer has a fraught history with snakes — and snake emojis — thanks to a feud with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian last year. Taylor Swift teased her upcoming sixth album, Reputation, with a ...

As we enter the Year of the Snake, we take the opportunity to revisit the starring roles of this mystic animal in art. Snake is the sixth animal sign in the 12-year zodiac cycle and based on ...

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