Reptiles

A captive Brazilian rainbow boa initially declared male by a vet gives birth to 14 snakelets in a rare case of parthenogenesis at a U.K. college.

A Western Pacific leatherback migrating from her nesting grounds in the Solomon Islands dove to a whopping 4,409 feet, conservationists say.

An encounter with one of these venomous snakes could cost you your life.

Dice snakes theatrically stage their own deaths, using blood and feces to convince predators they've shuffled off their mortal coils.

From Titanoboa and Vasuki — prehistoric snakes as long as a Tyrannosaurus rex — to modern-day pythons and boa constrictors that can swallow humans whole, these are the biggest, heaviest and longest snakes to have ever lived on Earth.

Giant, 47 million-year-old snake fossils pulled from mine in India may be the largest snake ever, potentially surpassing Titanoboa by around 15 feet.

First-of-its-kind footage captures two coral snakes fighting over a wormlike creature in western Colombia.

A study conducted on two snake farms has found that breeding pythons for meat is more energy and resource-efficient than current livestock production, offering a viable protein alternative.

A lab-made antibody can neutralize the neurotoxins in the venoms of cobras, kraits and black mambas, raising hopes for a universal antivenom treatment for snake bites.