Wildfires rage, yet many snakes slither on. Here’s how ancient survival tricks may be helping reptiles outlast climate-driven ...
The journal Nature reported recently that huge snakes, stretching up to 43 feet long and weighing 2,500 pounds, thrived on Earth 60 million years ago, after the dinosaurs died off. Our first thought ...
During my childhood in the Midwest, I briefly possessed—with my parents’ hesitant blessings—an Eastern milk snake as a pet. One day, the snake escaped from its terrarium in the garage. It didn’t try ...
About 60 million years ago, long before humans and just after the dinosaurs vanished, a giant snake rose to the top of ...
When I was five years old, my family moved into a 1930s semi-detached house with a long strip of garden. At the end of the garden was a miniature orchard of eight apple trees the previous owners had ...
Hall is the author of Slither: How Nature’s Most Maligned Creatures Illuminate Our World Hall is the author of Slither: How Nature’s Most Maligned Creatures Illuminate Our World During my childhood in ...