After describing a unique behaviour in the Small-banded Kukri Snake (Oligodon fasciolatus) last September, two new studies, also led by Henrik Bringsøe, are now reporting the same gruesome feeding ...

While walking through the woods on a summer day a few years ago, I heard a high-pitched scream. I knew at once what it was — a garter snake had caught a wood frog. I followed the sound to its source, ...

The research, conducted in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Michigan, was published in the peer-reviewed journal BMC Ecology and Evolution. "We now have evidence that this group of ...

Chewing food into little pieces may be helpful for human digestion, but snakes prefer to ingest their meals in one gulp. Unlike human jaws, snake jaws are not connected to their skulls. This allows ...