Researchers at the University of South Florida are uncovering new clues about how animals evolve by studying rattlesnake venom—and what they've found could help us better protect wildlife in a world ...

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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 ...

The opening pages of the 1943 book The Little Prince recall how the narrator, as a child, once drew a picture not of a hat — as every adult insisted it was — but of a boa constrictor that had ...

The fossil record of squamates, encompassing both lizards and snakes, provides an intricate account of evolutionary innovation over millions of years. Fossils elucidate key morphological transitions, ...

A Texas landowner took a picture of an unusual rattlesnake that they'd never seen before, immediately noticing there was something a little different about the critter. It wasn't a diamondback ...

Animals around the world have been feeling the negative effects of climate change, but there's one slithering creature that may be benefitting from it: rattlesnakes. Rattlesnakes can be found in every ...