A newly described fossil snake from India is forcing scientists to redraw the record books on reptile gigantism, with some ...

There are currently 18 to 19 families of snakes with approximately 2,950 different species. With so many snakes, both on land and in the sea, there is a wide variety of colors and sizes. In the ...

Carlos Jaramillo (top row, third from the right), a staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, co-organized the team that discovered the largest snake in world history. Courtesy ...

Fossils unearthed in Gujarat, India, reveal an exceptionally large snake from the Eocene era, approximately 47 million years ...

The longest snake native to North America is the Eastern indigo snake, which can reach lengths of almost nine feet. While Eastern indigo snakes were historically found in parts of Louisiana, they are ...

Did you know that Vermont only has one venomous snakes species? Out of the 11 snake species that live in Vermont, the Timber Rattlesnake is the only one that is venomous, having a triangle-shaped head ...