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Linnaean Snakes: Part I
This article will soon be available in SpanishEste artículo pronto estará disponible en españolAlthough recent findings have shed new light on the (so far) oldest-known fossil snakes, extending the...
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The Linnaean Snakes: Part II
This post will soon be available in Spanish!Click here to read Part I.Last month I wrote about "serpentine royalty": the first species of snakes to be formally described using the Linnaean system—those...
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Snakes that decapitate their food
This article will soon become available in both Spanish!Este artículo se convertirá pronto disponible en español!Click here to read this article in Japanese日本語版の記事はこちらCrab-eating Snake (Fordonia...
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Basics of Snake Fangs
Click here to read this post in Spanish!Haga clic aquí para leer este blog en español!Solenoglyphous fangs of a Gaboon ViperSnake fangs are specialized, elegantly modified teeth. Some are like...
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50,000 Hits & Snakes from Florida
Click here to read this post in SpanishHaga clic aquí para leer este blog en españolBrown Anole (Anolis sagrei)The purpose of my tripThis week I am in northeast Florida collecting lizards for my PhD...
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How snakes see through closed eyes
Early American symbols depicting rattlesnakes:(top) Rattlesnake on the $20 bill issued in 1778 by Georgia. The Latin motto (Nemo me impune lacesset) means, "No one will provoke me with...
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The Truth About Snakebite
Click here to read this article in Spanish!Haga clic aquí para leer este artículo en español!Many people live in fear of snakes, especially of venomous species that can inflict a lethal bite. There is...
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#SnakesAtYourService Blog Carnival - 9th December!
Click here to read this post in Spanish!Haga clic aquí para leer este blog en español!Rough Green Snakes (Opheodrys aestivus)mostly eat insects and spiders.Photo by Kevin DursoNext week, a few...
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Blog Carnival: Ecology of Snake Sheds
Clic aquí para la edición españolaToday I am participating in my first Blog Carnival (or blogero, click here for the Spanish edition), which is called #SnakesAtYourService and is about the roles snakes...
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The first invasive snake
Click here to read this post in Spanish!Haga clic aquí para leer este blog en español!Wolf Snakes (Lycodon aulicus) have become establishedon Mauritius, where they threaten native skinks and...
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Snakes that Give Virgin Birth
In continuing association with the group that brought you the #SnakesAtYourService December blog carnival, this post is part of the new Reptile & Amphibian Blogging Network's first event,...
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Why do snakes have two penises?
Click here to read this post in Spanish!Haga clic aquí para leer este blog en español!Figure from Laszlo 1975Recently somebody asked me "Why do snakes have two penises?" When I tried to answer, I...
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The most widespread snake in the world
Click here to read this post in Spanish!Haga clic aquí para leer este blog en español!Global distribution of snakesSnakes are found in almost all parts of the world, with the exception of New Zealand...
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Snakes long-lost
Click here to read this post in Spanish!Haga clic aquí para leer este blog en español!Alternate title suggested by Mike Pingleton: Not all who slither are lostClarión Nightsnake (Hypsiglena...
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Why do snakes flick their tongues?
I slightly modified and republished this article on The ConversationClick here to read this post in Spanish!Haga clic aquí para leer este blog en español!You've probably seen it before - a snake...
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Tetrodotoxin-resistant snakes
Click here to read this post in SpanishHaga clic aquí para leer este blog en españolAn adult male Taricha granulosa in breeding condition.There is enough tetrodotoxin in this newt to kill youand about...
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Filesnakes, Wartsnakes, or Elephant Trunksnakes
Click here to read this post in SpanishHaga clic aquí para leer este blog en españolArafura Filesnake (Acrochordus arafurae)In the swamps, marshes, streams, and estuaries of northern Australia and...
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Snake poop and the adaptive ballast hypothesis
Click here to read this post in SpanishHaga clic aquí para leer este blog en españolAlternate title suggested by David Steen: Why snakes might benefit from holding it Most people probably spend as...
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Do snakes sleep?
This article will soon be available in Spanish.Do snakes sleep? Do they dream? These may seem like obvious questions, especially since almost every species of mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian, fish,...
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Can snakes hear?
This post will soon be available in Spanish.Last month I wrote about whether snakes sleep, a topic that is far more interesting than the minuscule amount of research devoted to it. Another common...
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