There are currently 18 to 19 families of snakes with approximately 2,950 different species. With so many snakes, both on land and in the sea, there is a wide variety of colors and sizes. In the ...

A banded sea snake swimming freely. Some species of venomous sea snakes lost their ability to see in color when the moved from the land to the ocean about 110 million years ago. “The ancestral snake, ...

A marine snake has evolved to see colour after losing the ability millions of years ago. It is one of only two reptiles known to have regained this type of colour vision. Over the last 25 million ...

There’s nothing quite like a hungry baby. For this mother eagle, mealtime means turning to the water for a tasty snake treat. The video begins with the mother eagle scanning the environment for ...

An incredible image showing a photographer's point of view as he was surrounded by venomous sea snakes is among the pictures chosen for the 58th Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition. The ...

A novel modified cephalic vascular network that provides the blue-banded sea snake (Hydrophis cyanocinctus) with a complementary supply of oxygen to the brain during submersion has been described for ...