The Western hooknose snake uses a bizarre cloacal pop that sounds like a fart to scare predators. Here's how it works.

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Snake Island doesn't sound like it should be an actual place you can go to, but despite sounding like the worst level on Super Mario Bros., it is in fact a real island full of snakes. The island, ...

Herpetology has long navigated through tangled terrain in Papua New Guinea, where species mislabeling and sparse sampling ...

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As we sneak ever-closer to the August release of Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Konami has released the stealth game's ...

Another favorite of northern water snakes is Jersey’s largest freshwater lake. While the lake’s popularity as a recreation ...

Black swamp snake (Liodytes pygaea ... When threatened, it will let out a loud hissing sound and mimic a rattlesnake's vibrating tail. It is not, though, in any way dangerous to people and ...

While snake bites are not super rare ... You want to make sure that the only hissing sound coming from a toilet is generated by water alone.

There are 21 snake species that are native to Pennsylvania ... Venom primarily is used to disable prey.The timber rattlesnake doesn't always sound its familiar alarm before striking.

The band — which features a "sliding roster" of 10 members, described their sound somewhere in between ... between Melba and Huntington of the Snake River because it flows through multiple ...

Our professor said he'd give us extra credit for catching rattlers for his lab, so we set out into the Arizona desert.