The best-known seer in Greek myth is Teiresias. As a young man, Teiresias came upon a pair of coupling serpents on Mount Cithaeron, and, in disgust, struck them with his staff. This offended the ...

Researchers have described a new species of venomous snake, from one of the deadliest and most medically significant groups of snakes in Asia. The Suzhen’s krait is found in rice fields and streams in ...

As people celebrate the beginning of the new Chinese lunar year, the Year of the Snake, what do snakes symbolize in mythology ...

Nicolette Cagle has been drawn to snakes since she was about seven, and has the love bites to prove it. In the course of her research, she has been scratched or pricked more than 100 times by the ...