When you're hiking in the Smokies, keep an eye out for snakes - but remember that humans probably see only 10% of the snakes ...

Wild animals destroy most of the cattle, but venomous snakes kill more human beings than all the wild animals put together. The bites of these reptiles caused the death of 17,000 persons ...

It is perhaps for this reason that snakes often are persecuted and killed without any understanding of their true nature. Snakes play critical roles in the environments where they occur, primarily by ...

Together we provided scientific support for Cities: Nature's New Wild and helped to ensure that the snakes were handled in a manner that was safe for them and didn't cause them any unnecessary stress.

I HAVE received the following interesting notes by Dr. J. Burton Cleland, of 93 Macquarie Street, Sydney. I may add to the observations recorded towards the end of his letter the behaviour of a ...

Some snakes can adjust the angle of individual scales, to fine-tune their grip, making them excellent climbers. Sea snakes are able to supplement their air supply by absorbing oxygen from the ...

Turtles are reptiles of the order Chelonii or Testudines characterized by a special bony or cartilaginous shell developed from their ribs and acting as a shield. The earliest known turtles date ...