The trade-off of this hardy external layer is that it doesn't expand; it remains relatively inflexible and constricts the snake as it grows. This is one of the primary reasons snakes shed their skin: ...

Like other animals and insects, snakes shed their skin for many different reasons. This practice is beneficial to the snake as they grow older, but have you ever wondered why they have to shed in the ...

If you have a wood pile, you may have come across a shed snake skin — a translucent wrapper resembling an onion skin, imprinted with the snake’s scale pattern. Or perhaps you’ve seen one along a ...

Not too many years ago, Alycia Griffith was afraid of snakes. But little by little, thanks to volunteering at the now-closed ZooZeum, she lost that fear. The first time a ZooZeum ball python named ...

Since snakes do not have external ears, humans often make the mistake of thinking they cannot hear. Snakes do not even have small ear openings on the sides of their heads like lizards and crocodilians ...

These antiheroes of the American West are actually not so bad. New research reveals they're good parents and neighbors, and their venom may help save lives. This eastern blacktailed rattler coils atop ...

Do you ever wish you could just crawl out of your own skin? Snakes are some of the few creatures on Earth that actually can. Dozens of times throughout its life, a snake slithers out of its old skin ...