Many of us know snakes are ectothermic reptiles that regulate their body temperature behaviorally by using shade, burrows, warm rocks, and even metabolic heat from digestion. But not everyone is aware ...

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

Have you had a recent encounter with a small, colorful and scaly ribbon that swerved? The 2017 crop of baby snakes has been on the prowl for a couple of months now. When it comes to the next ...

LANCASTER, Pa. (WHTM) — From the folks at Forgotten Friends Reptile Sanctuary comes video of baby corn snakes hatching. The little ones started coming out of their shells on July 20th. With about ...

Scientists working in Myanmar have uncovered a nearly 100-million-year-old baby snake encased in amber. Dating back to the Late Cretaceous, it’s the oldest known baby snake in the fossil record, and ...

With fall afoot and baby snakes a-slither, we will soon have more snakes on the landscape than at any other time of the year. The following is one of the many questions readers ask about snakes of the ...

Anyone spending time outdoors during North Carolina’s warmer months knows to be watchful for snakes — copperhead snakes in particular. Copperheads are one of the six types of venomous snakes found in ...

Rattlesnakes and copperheads are found in Charlotte, especially as the weather warms. Baby copperheads can be identified by their small size and bright yellow tails. Rattlesnakes rarely bite unless ...

Adult brown (or dekay) snake. At full grown, they are about a foot long. Courtesy of Talena Chavis. On social media sites, seemingly every snake in every photo is identified as a venomous copperhead.

With fall afoot and baby snakes a-slither, we will soon have more snakes on the landscape than at any other time of the year. The following is one of the many questions readers ask about snakes of the ...