A new breakthrough brings snake-like thermal vision to everyday camera sensors, pushing infrared imaging closer to mainstream ...

Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 45, No. 1 (March 2011), pp. 2-14 (13 pages) The infrared organs of boas, pythons, and pit vipers are true eyes that function not by a photochemical reaction but on the ...

NEW YORK — It took more than a century, but scientists finally found it – the female snake's clitoris. A new study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Journal on Wednesday revealed that ...

Ophidiophobia (the phobia of snakes) is one of the more common phobias psychologists treat today. Some researchers posit that this is an evolutionary response and that humans are wary of snakes ...

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