What’s the scariest thing that could happen in your bathroom? Do you worry about running out of toilet paper or spilling toothpaste all over the sink? What about a snake slithering out of your toilet?

Serpents get a bad rap. Their lore, both mythological and pop cultural, can engender fear and hatred of snakes. Unfairly, experts say, humans go after the harmless, slithery rat exterminator in the ...

Forget fangs full of venom — the backsides of serpents pack secretions volatile enough to kill insect invaders. By Joshua Rapp Learn A writhing ball of slimed-up, musky-smelling snake might be just ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed listing the southern hognose snake as a threatened species. Habitat loss, road mortality, and non-native species are the primary threats to the snake's ...