Scientists have developed a new method to monitor the elusive eastern indigo snake, the longest native snake in the United ...

Scientists have developed a new method to monitor the elusive eastern indigo snake using environmental DNA (eDNA) from soil ...

The new species of African house snake is known from only one specimen, a roughly 10-inch long juvenile snake caught “in high ...

A mysterious snake, hidden in plain sight for decades, has finally revealed its true identity, leaving researchers both ...

New proteins not found in nature have now been designed to counteract certain highly poisonous components of snake venom. The ...

Developing this tool required considerable work and significant technical advancements to ensure each target snake species’ DNA is precisely identified. “The initial stage was designing the ...

Researchers from UW Medicine and the Technical University of Denmark have developed computationally designed proteins to ...

There are roughly 230 known species of moray eels, with most living in salty marine environments. The freshwater moray ( ...

Kwiaht herpetologist Christian Oldham is documenting the seasonal activities of both populations, and both prey and snake DNA ...

boa constrictors and rainbow boas from environmental DNA — which scientists refer to as eDNA — collected in the wild. The test can identify four invasive snake species simultaneously. Leaving her mark ...