The ability of venomous snakes to strike with remarkable speed has become a subject of growing interest among researchers aiming to understand how animals operate at the limits of physical performance ...

Quick Take 73-inches is the record-breaking length for this snake. The 1.25-pound weight limit creates a physical ...

More than 100 million years ago, the ancestors of the first snakes were small lizards that lived alongside other small, nondescript lizards in the shadow of the dinosaurs. More than 100 million years ...

This ancient, leg-bearing snake is rewriting the story of how serpents slithered, and sometimes walked, their way through evolutionary history.