Snakes are highly effective predators, using a wide range of tactics to capture their prey. While many modern snakes have ...

While most snake species are solitary hunters, a rare and fascinating few engage in cooperative hunting—a remarkable behavior ...

Researchers in Colombia have scanned the skins of aquatic snakes to figure out how scale sensilla, tiny sensor-like structures, could help them find and attack prey. Scale sensilla, which are ...

If you grew up on nature documentaries, you probably have “snake = scary predator” wired into your brain. But out in the real world, snakes are very much on the menu. Birds stomp them. Mammals chew ...

High up from the forest floor, birds flit from limb to limb and weave their homes from leafy foliage, seemingly safe from predators that might be lurking in the forest below. But certain species of ...