A tour guide has miraculously cheated death after a six-metre python coiled itself around his neck just moments after it pulled him underwater. Heru, an experienced snake catcher, was part of a group ...

Pythons are famous for swallowing enormous meals whole—including morsels bigger than their own body mass. In order to digest these infrequent feasts, the snake’s heart works overtime by increasing its ...

People at the University of Colorado Boulder thought Leslie Leinwand had lost her mind when she decided to start studying snakes nearly 20 years ago. It was a research paper that sparked her interest ...

One woman’s surprise visitor was enough to send the average person into hissterics. An Australian woman got quite the serpentine surprise when opening her garage door in a heart-stopping moment caught ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. There have been multiple documented incidents where large ...

For thousands of years, snakes have been used in art, literature, religious texts and more. From Adam and Eve's temptation in the Garden of Eden to Medusa with her hair of snakes that turned anyone ...