That’s because in a race of reflexes, the snake usually wins. For a mouse or human, it takes less than half a second to register a threat and react. But venomous snakes are capable of launching ...

Scientists filmed 36 snake species to study their strike speed. They found vipers, elapids, and colubrids each use unique ...

Alex Bentley, 22, of Salem, a rising senior at Wofford College in South Carolina, looks for snakes in fallen trees for his research project about the timber rattlesnake while in the southern range of ...

A public hearing on a rezoning request to use property on Colon Road as a solid waste disposal site will be held Monday at the Lee County Board of Commissioners meeting. The request for 117.12 acres ...

Materials I used: Soft copper wire: 20 gauge (wire diameter 0.8mm): 2.5cm (1 inch) for each link, 8 cm (3 inch) for snake head, 7 cm (2.5 inch) for snake tail. Beads: 3mm (crystal abacus). You can ...

Ancient snakes once possessed four limbs, but evolution dramatically reshaped them. A genetic 'switch' called the ZRS ...