Not all snakes lay eggs—some give birth to live young, from rattlesnakes to sea snakes, revealing surprising survival strategies and adaptations that help them thrive in harsh or unusual environments.

Snakes are the least understood animals on the planet. They are elusive, mostly dangerous, and experts know surprisingly ...

Sea snakes exemplify a unique evolutionary transition from terrestrial to fully marine lifestyles. Their morphology, physiology and behaviour display a suite of adaptations that enable survival in ...

Scientists are sounding the alarm after an unusually high number of sightings of sea snakes washed up on beaches in Australia. Over a dozen highly venomous sea snakes have washed up dead or become ...

The live three-foot yellow-bellied sea snake that washed ashore at Honoli’i Beach is "potentially lethal to humans" Shyla Watson is a digital news editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

Now a study published in journal the Scientific Reports suggests that male sea snakes may think divers are potential rivals or mates, while female snakes think they are possible hiding places. The ...

You’d think that animals adapted to life in the open ocean would ignore arbitrary distinctions like ‘Pacific’ and ‘Atlantic.’ ...

Researchers have for the first time closely tracked the fine-scale diving behaviour of two species of sea snakes that forage along the seafloor and discovered that one species performs a curious ...

Researchers studying sea snakes during breeding season believe that their bad eyesight could be leading them to confuse divers with other sea snakes.

A “highly venomous” 3-foot creature was found on a beach in Hawaii, officials said. Photo by Tyler Casey on Unsplash A “highly venomous” sea snake that’s “potentially lethal to humans” was found on a ...