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 ...

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

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.

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 ...