The long, limbless body has proven extraordinarily adaptive, in part because snakes evolved ways of killing relatively big animals, giving them more prey options to exploit. "Snakes evolved ...

Local Wildlife Department officials raided three places at Nurpur Bedi and Kiratpur Sahib and seized pythons, cobras, sand boa and a large number of body parts of animals, including snakes ...

Scientists know a lot about animals' male reproductive ... Lizards have 2-part clitorises they can tuck back into their body Like snakes, their closests cousins — lizards — have a two-part ...

Despite obvious differences in size and shapes observed among different vertebrate animals, they all have bodies with a head and neck, a trunk and a tail. It is the relative size of each of these ...

Scientists had never before seen a snake Bury its head inside an animal's body to slurp up organs ... heart, lung and part of the gastrointestinal tract." In a second event, an epic battle ...

When climbing steep and smooth surfaces, like branches or pipes, the animals ... this snake form what looked like a lasso around the cylinder and wiggle its body up. We watched that part of ...

but scientists are turning more and more to the study of their female counterparts—it’s just a bit trickier since female parts are situated inside the animal. Snakes and lizards have not just ...

The extreme metabolism of some snakes ... animal kingdom — a feat that Dr. Secor has been exploring for a quarter of a century. He has been finding adaptations throughout the snake’s entire ...