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 ...

A massive female reticulated python, named Ibu Baron, has been officially certified by Guinness World Records as the longest verifiably measured wild snake ever documented, stretching an astonishing ...

REPT copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. "Profiling 600 significant species from around the world, The Book of Snakes covers almost one in six of all known snakes. Each ...

A review of over 500 reports of cannibalistic behavior in snakes finds it's appeared multiple times in different evolutionary ...

Learn more about the impact our parents and negative language have on how we begin to think about snakes at a young age.

Veteran science journalist Stephen S. Hall–the author of several books, most recently, Slither: How Nature’s Most Maligned Creatures Illuminate Our World—recounts how he approached writing Slither, a ...