Pacific, are highly venomous marine reptiles with remarkable adaptations for aquatic life. They have paddle-like tails, ...

Other snakes drag fish out of the cracks and crevices in coral reefs. Such hiding places are frequented by eels, the banded ...

Being one of the largest known sea snakes implies a capability to hunt larger prey. Then there's its home base. During the ...

Pythons swallow deer, alligators and other prey whole. What they eat is limited in part by how big an animal they can wrap their flexible, stretchy jaws around. Researchers call this the snake's gape.

Pythons swallow deer, alligators and other prey whole. What they eat is limited in part by how big an animal they can wrap their flexible, stretchy jaws around. Researchers call this the snake's gape.

This means that these snakes, which have rapidly invaded Florida, might be able to eat larger and larger prey, and therefore have more of an impact on the ecosystem. "Knowing the size of prey that ...