Today the team measures some of the largest snakes in their collection to see just how big they’ve grown. Using string and tape measures to follow the length of each snake’s spine, they carefully ...

By the time word spread through the Maros region of South Sulawesi, the snake already had the kind of reputation that usually ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. In the humid swamps of what is now Colombia, there was once ...

How many types of snakes are there? It's hard to quantify with one final answer because it changes. The short answer is that currently, there are over 4,000 snake species on Earth, grouped into about ...

New research suggests an enormous snake may have once called India home. Fossilized vertebrae found near a coal mine in western India indicate that the snake was between 36 feet and 50 feet long. This ...

A single fossilized bone has unlocked a surprising chapter in Taiwan’s ancient past — one in which a giant python stretching ...

Any report on invasive species is bound to have bad news, it seems, and a new report from the U.S. Geological Survey analyzing the threat from nine giant snake species is possibly even worse because ...