With just venom and precision, these snakes can defend themselves from afar, without ever needing to bite you. Here’s what ...

Researchers in Colombia have scanned the skins of aquatic snakes to figure out how scale sensilla, tiny sensor-like structures, could help them find and attack prey. Scale sensilla, which are ...

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Snakes are fearsome creatures that you wouldn’t consider to be prey for other predators – but there are some animals that regularly dine on snakes! Birds of prey are able to drop down on unsuspecting ...