This shedding process, or ecdysis, is when an animal sheds an outer layer of skin, shell, or exoskeleton. Also known as molting, spiders, crabs, and snakes experience ecdysis, as do many other ...

Garter snake. Image by Depositphotos. Snake skin shedding (ecdysis) involves highly coordinated biological processes where the entire outer skin layer separates and is shed in one piece. This process ...

Unlike humans, whose skin grows and regenerates continuously, snakes have to shed their older skin entirely to be able to accommodate their growing bodies. When snakes grow, their skin does not ...

Field crews in Wyoming uncovered not one but four snake fossils so intact that their skulls, ribs, and tails lay in ...

Snakes have both interested and scared humans for centuries. While many species are harmless and even beneficial to ecosystems, some of them are known for their intense venom potency, speed, and ...

S ome snakes are well-known for injecting prey with venom from their fangs. What’s less well known is that they produce toxic ...

BEYOND ITS CURRENT LOCATIONS. THE INDIGO SNAKE IS MAKING A COMEBACK IN FLORIDA AND A CONSERVATION PROGRAM THAT’S PART OF THE CENTRAL FLORIDA ZOO AND BOTANICAL GARDENS IS WORKING TO MAKE IT HAPPEN.

Researchers at the University of Agder (UiA) and Uppsala University are examining hundreds of snakes from museum collections. They are looking for traces of a deadly fungal disease. The goal is to ...

Biologists trudged through the grassy nature preserve carrying cloth bags that contained fearsome-seeming cargo: 42 snake-eating apex predators. The conservation program has now released 209 ...

The antitoxin antibodies found in the blood of a Wisconsin man—who voluntarily let snakes bite him for alm0st 20 years—is helping scientists create better antivenom drugs for snakebites.