New research published in the journal Biology Letters indicates that a desert woodrat's resistance to rattlesnake venom may vary with temperature. As a warming climate, driven by human-caused ...

For much of the 20th century, coal miners used to use canaries as an early warning device against harmful pollutants. Now, scientists may have found a similar use for the world's deadliest snake.

DALLAS — Texas is home to more than 100 snake species, including the western diamondback rattlesnake, which was recently ...

Paleontologists have made a groundbreaking discovery in western Wyoming: the nearly complete fossils of a 34-million-year-old snake, Hibernophis breithaupti. This extraordinary find reshapes our ...