Snakes are reptiles of the order Squamata that have no limbs on their long, scaly bodies. These reptiles routinely undergo ecdysis, which is the shedding of a layer of skin. They do this to ...

Q: My husband was excited when he witnessed a robin building a nest by recycling a shed skin from a snake that lives at the foundation of our house in Clarksville, Tennessee. We're not sure exactly ...

The image of a snake eating its own tail is a pretty famous metaphor, but a snake getting stuck inside a continuous loop of its own skin is one we haven’t heard before. According to Sploid, this ...

A tiny fragment of bumpy fossil found in a cave in Oklahoma is now the oldest known piece of preserved skin, paleontologists report Thursday in the journal Current Biology. The discovery allows ...

New insights into an ancient swimming reptile are more than skin deep. An analysis of a 240-million-year-old fossil, published August 29 in the Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, offers clues to how a ...

The sound of a rattlesnake's rattle is perhaps the most frightening sound you could hear on a hike. But how and why do these snakes make this iconic noise? "Everything tells us that they rattle to ...

Travis Kelce Seen Having Words With Bills Fans While Leaving After Injury Take a look inside the only remaining German ...

Do you love snakes, frogs, turtles and lizards? Do you dream of having one of your own, but your mom says no because she heard somewhere that they can make you sick? Vet Alice Weiss helps explain why ...

Q: My husband was excited when he witnessed a robin building a nest by recycling a shed skin from a snake that lives at the foundation of our house in Clarksville, Tennessee. We're not sure exactly ...