Deep in the Pine Barrens, poachers can wander for hours at a time. Their eyes scan the forest floor for dull orange, camouflaged corn snakes, a state-endangered reptile long threatened by a ...

Snakes may not be known for wagging tails or greeting their owners at the door, but some species are thought to be ...

Among the 5 000 existing species of mammals, more than 100 have their genome sequenced, whereas the genomes of only 9 species of reptiles (among 10 000 species) are available to the scientific ...

There are about 4,000 different snake species in the world today. They occupy a wide range of habitats — some dwell ...