And there’s always celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay’s recipe for diced python in a lettuce wrap with shallots, pineapple, and jalapeno. But the Florida Department of Health has recently ...

Snakes have much to teach us when it comes to climate adaptation, writes Stephen S. Hall.

Farming snakes as a high-protein, low-fat food source may be a more sustainable way of taking the pressure off conventional livestock farming which has been ravaged by climate change and ...

The reticulated python is the longest snake in the world, with the longest ever recorded measuring about 32.8 feet long.

The fury of rodent mothers may have given rise to the toughest of all snakes. The skin of the Calabar burrowing python (Calabaria reinhardtii), a one-meter-long snake native to equatorial Africa ...

Perhaps the most important message from the roughly 4,000 different snakes slithering around the planet is that diversity is not only good, but necessary for survival.