If male snakes were to provide sensory stimulation to the organs, it could "elicit female receptivity" and even help promote longer and more frequent mating, as well as better rates of ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Female snakes have clitorises, scientists have detailed for the first time in a ...

Scientists have discovered that female snakes have a clitoris — a previously overlooked or dismissed part of their anatomy (and that of many other animals), according to a new study.

Female genitalia has always been a taboo subject no matter the species, even with snakes. For the first time, scientists have found that female snakes have clitorises, in a detailed study of the ...

“We were like, Okay, I really doubt that that’s what’s happening.” Whether female snakes get pleasure out of all this is another question. The experts I spoke with were on board with the ...

But new discoveries are revealing how female sex organs are just as interesting ... it had never been studied before in snakes, so many scientists assumed there wasn’t one.

Snakes are best known for their venomous bites, ability to swallow prey as large as an alligator whole, and forked tongues and male genitals called hemipenes. However, female snakes also have some ...

Female snakes have not one, but two clitorises, according to research documenting the first formal evidence of the sexual organ in snakes. This two-part clitoris, called a hemiclitoris ...