Diamondback watersnakes are among the top snakes you'll find while tubing down the Comal and Guadalupe rivers.

Its “distinct” yellow-ringed eyes scanned ... Seen from above, the snakes vary from “olive brown to pale grayish brown with scattered black and cream flecks.” Seen from below, their ...

Intrigued by this “unusual” change in color, researchers caught several snakes, took a closer look at them, tested their DNA and realized they’d discovered a new species: Trimeresurus cryptographicus, ...

Herpetologist Fred Kraus discovered a new arboreal snake species, Dendrelaphis atra, on Misima Island in Papua New Guinea.

Today's largest sea snake, the yellow sea snake (Hydrophis spiralis), reaches a maximum length of about 10 feet (three meters). While certainly not something anyone would want to encounter while ...

Drive the Faroe Islands’ scenic byways to get lost amid the clouds, witness waterfalls blowing themselves inside out and find ...

These birds have evolved to withstand the equatorial sun and shelter in volcanic rocks along a subtropical coastline. After ...

Oregon is a great place for geology geeks. Enormous lava flows, Ice Age megafloods, massive volcanic eruptions —we bear ...

Their distinctive coloration—black on top and yellow underneath—serves as camouflage from both predators above and prey below. Despite producing some of the most potent venom among sea snakes, ...