In honor of the Year of the Snake, let’s appreciate the strange anatomy and evolution of these slithery reptiles ...

Instead, they slither — but there's a little more to snake anatomy than how they ... Found on the faces of species like pit vipers, these organs let snakes detect warm-blooded prey, even in ...

The paired pit organs provide the snake with thermal rangefinder capabilities. These organs are of great value to a predator that hunts at night, as well as for avoiding the snake's own predators.

Now, these “ambushing” animals have been identified as a new species of snake: the red-barred green pit viper. Researchers were surveying ... Male snakes have what is called a hemipenis, the male ...

Now, these “ambushing” animals have been identified as a new species of snake: the red-barred green pit viper ... the male reproductive organ that is stored in the tail most of the time ...