The Saint Lucia racer, a tiny subspecies of snake that occurs solely on a minuscule island off the coast of Saint Lucia, is the planet's rarest snake. Having teetered on the edge of extinction, it is ...

A new species of snake was described from western Panama. First documented in 1977 by Dr. Charles Myers, a scientist studying amphibians and reptiles throughout Panama, it was only now that it got a ...

The hatching of the 107th tiny, wriggling snake at a Tennessee zoo marks the end of another year of efforts to save one of North America’s rarest snakes from extinction. The Memphis Zoo is celebrating ...