By the end of the day, a Sydney snake catcher bagged a total of 102 snakes, including both pregnant females and their newborns.

Hopefully, if you get started early enough, you can keep the most hated creature out of your attic, toilet or closet, as they ...

One defense strategy that birds might employ involves draping their nests with snake skin. This tactic helps keep predators away, […] ...

A museum curator with a ladder showed that birds that build cavity-style nests are able to protect their eggs with the skin ...

Inset, a snake bares its fangs. The flycatcher is one of a number of birds that line their nests with shed snakeskin ... To investigate, the team placed pairs of quail eggs in 140 nesting sites ...

There is little or no pain or swelling at the site of the bite, and other symptoms can be delayed for 12 hours. However, if untreated by antivenin, the neurotoxin begins to disrupt the connections ...

But these islands aren’t entirely snake-free. Sea kraits sometimes come ashore to lay their eggs. Occasionally non-native species have been found on isolated islands, most likely having been ...

FEEDING: Eastern indigo snakes' diet consists of a variety of species, including small mammals, birds, toads, frogs, turtles and their eggs, lizards and small alligators. Eastern indigo snakes also ...

They can deliver a powerful toxin via their fangs and because they inject it, marine snakes are considered venomous, rather than poisonous. The turtle-headed sea snakes, Emydocephalus, are an ...

They collated data on which bird species use snake skin and their nest type and found that ... For this experiment, the researchers placed two quail eggs inside more than 60 nest boxes and 80 ...