Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Olive sea snake has special valves in its nose to keep water out while its swimming.© DNC40/Shutterstock.com Apart from its ...

Among the most adept swimmers are sea snakes, which spend their entire lives in the ocean, and water snakes that live in and around fresh-water habitats in the eastern half of the United States.

When we think of underwater animals, we usually picture graceful fish or majestic sea turtles. What we don’t typically imagine are spiders and snakes. Let’s face it—most humans regard snakes and ...

A 6ft snake swam towards a couple’s boat off the coast of Ibiza in the latest report of snakes swimming in the sea and worrying tourists. Stefanie Daub and her husband took a boat in Ses Balandres to ...

A rare venomous sea snake found slithering on the sand in Newport Beach earlier this week was one of a growing number of the serpents apparently drawn far north of their usual habitat by the spread of ...

Researchers have for the first time closely tracked the fine-scale diving behaviour of two species of sea snakes that forage along the seafloor and discovered that one species performs a curious ...

Better hope you don’t get bit by any of these venomous snakes. Top row: Robert Hamilton/Alamy; Wiki Commons; Sam Yue/Alamy. Middle row: Scott Travers; Design Pics Inc/Alamy; Dimitry Orlov/Alamy.

Sea snakes are often more venomous than their land-dwelling counterparts. Though their venom isquite potent, sea snakes tend to be docile and calm. Apart from its remarkable size, the olive sea snake ...