Researchers recently made a startling discovery while searching for desert scorpions at night : Blind snakes fluoresce brilliantly under black lights. Their snouts glow an eerie bright blue, and ...

SAN DIEGO, Calif. (CNN Newsource/KGTV/WKRC) - A man found a snake slithering in his couch in San Diego. Alex Trejo uncovered a massive snake hiding in someone's couch in Chula Vista. "This guy ...

Luckily for a 5½-foot Eastern rat snake, a Virginia woman noticed something was amiss. It had a large lump stuck halfway down its slender body. She took it to Blue Ridge Wildlife Center in Boyce ...

The menacingly beautiful blue coral snake preys on other fast moving, venomous snakes. To immobilize its prey, this reptile employs a particularly nasty venom—one that makes the last moments of ...

The blue coral snake (Calliophis bivirgata), has a unique kind of venom that most snakes don’t have, and it even has the largest venom glands of any snake, which extend more than a quarter of its body ...

A rare blind snake has been rediscovered in Madagascar a century after its last sighting. The snake, which looks like a long, skinny pink worm, was known only from two other specimens, both ...

Unveiling the elusive and exotic: Venomics of the Malayan blue coral snake (Calliophis bivirgata flaviceps). Journal of Proteomics, 2016; 132: 1 DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2015.11.014 ...