Unlike most other animals, snakes do not have limbs to help them get from one place to another. Instead, they slither — but there's a little more to snake anatomy than how they move. Finely tuned for ...

Scientists have shown for the first time how snakes can hear, despite their lack of external ears and internal eardrums. The US and German research shows that snakes have two hearing systems, one via ...

Lizard jaw, Coniophis jaw and a snake jaw; courtesy of Nick Longrich Sorry, sea serpents. Snakes, it seems, slithered off their lizard legs on land. A new analysis of ...