Scientists have detected snake-like dental glands in caecilians, which means these serpentine creatures might actually be venomous—an unheard of trait among amphibians. Caecilians secrete a substance ...

People in the comments said the animal being eaten was not a second snake at all. They identified it as a caecilian, a ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Pretty ...

Ohio is not usually the first place people associate with snakes. The state sits well north of the subtropical wetlands that ...

An international team of researchers has uncovered 'unprecedented' snake venom resistance in an unexpected species -- the legless amphibian known as caecilians. An international team of researchers ...

Animals called caecilians may have been among the first vertebrates on land to lace their bites with venom. By Katherine J. Wu If a worm and a snake had a slimy, scandalous love child, it might look ...

Arizona is often associated with deserts and towering cacti, yet many of its richest reptile habitats lie beside water. Lakes ...

EnviroBuild, a construction materials company based in the U.K., paid $25,000 for naming rights to the amphibian in a charity auction benefiting the Rainforest Trust, a conservation group. EnviroBuild ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.— A study published this week documented the shocking collapse of a snake community in Panama following a sweeping loss of amphibians to an invasive, deadly fungal disease. The ...

Shawnee National Forest’s Snake Road is closing Sept. 1 so that snakes and amphibians, some of them considered threatened and endangered in Illinois and the United States, can migrate from their ...