Wildfires rage, yet many snakes slither on. Here’s how ancient survival tricks may be helping reptiles outlast climate-driven ...

Hall is the author of Slither: How Nature’s Most Maligned Creatures Illuminate Our World Hall is the author of Slither: How Nature’s Most Maligned Creatures Illuminate Our World During my childhood in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. In the humid swamps of what is now Colombia, there was once ...

The journal Nature reported recently that huge snakes, stretching up to 43 feet long and weighing 2,500 pounds, thrived on Earth 60 million years ago, after the dinosaurs died off. Our first thought ...

A scene from the first episode of “Planet Earth II,” which shows a marine iguana hatchling and a racer snake. BBC The BBC aired the first episode of its “Planet Earth II,” narrated by naturalist Sir ...

The northern green anaconda has been identified as a new species after genetic analysis showed it split from its southern counterpart 10 million years ago. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

Lightning walked up and over the mountain behind us like the devil's fingers playing piano. All around, the air was tinderbox-dry. When wind blew through dusty sage, leaves rattled almost as loudly as ...

During my childhood in the Midwest, I briefly possessed—with my parents’ hesitant blessings—an Eastern milk snake as a pet. One day, the snake escaped from its terrarium in the garage. It didn’t try ...