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 ...

Some animals inspire fear, and then there are animals that inspire cosmologies. The green anaconda, the largest snake in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Snakes have both fascinated and scared humans for as long as we can remember. Especially frightening are the giants that stretch ...

With their upturned snouts, hognose snakes are easily recognizable. However, they are not among the largest snakes in the world, which makes them more vulnerable to predators such as birds of prey, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Spin a globe, and it’s easy to be lulled into a false sense ...

There are no venomous snakes that call Rhode Island home, but the bad news for people with ophidiophobia is there are snakes in Rhode Island that can grow to 8 feet long. There are 12 snakes native to ...

Alabama's lands are crawling with 49 species of snakes. Six are venomous, and the rest won't bother you. One snake stands out, not for its bite, but for its size. What is the longest snake in the ...

A juvenile female boa constrictor in a shed cycle, indicated by the blue opaque eyes. Image by XPS420, CC BY-SA 3.0 In terms of the find, the fossil material includes 27 mostly well-preserved vertebra ...

The Narcisse Snake Dens in Manitoba, Canada, host tens of thousands of red-sided garter snakes each year ...