At just 8.74 inches long (222 millimeters), the juvenile African House snake is blackish brown or dark brown in color across its dorsum with white ventral coloration but no stripes on its sub ...

Two scientists, Jakob Hallermann and Oliver Hawlitschek, set out to establish the identity of a group of African House snakes. The pair released a study published on January 13 that featured ...

But during development, the architecture of snake scales is underlain with a dense network of collagen, as seen here. This is an image of the collagen network within the scales of an African house ...