Some lizards have evolved to be resistant to the venom of snakes, entering into a sort of evolutionary arms race with their limbless cousins. A family of lizards known as varanids has evolved ...

If you grew up on nature documentaries, you probably have “snake = scary predator” wired into your brain. But out in the real world, snakes are very much on the menu. Birds stomp them. Mammals chew ...

The opening pages of the 1943 book The Little Prince recall how the narrator, as a child, once drew a picture not of a hat — as every adult insisted it was — but of a boa constrictor that had ...