The image of airborne snakes may seem like the stuff of nightmares (or a certain Hollywood movie), but in the jungles of South and Southeast Asia it is reality. Flying snake is a misnomer ...

This iconic snake, with its bulbous head and red, yellow, and black bands, is famous as much for its potent venom as for the many rhymes—"Red and yellow, kill a fellow; red and black ...

There is a good reason to be in the latter camp. According to National Geographic, there are about 3,000 species of snakes on ...

Your National Geographic Society membership helped fund ... It was ruled by the Snake kings of the Kaanul dynasty, which until just a few decades ago no one even knew existed.

This story appears in the December 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. The snake charmer. The yarn threader. The broommaker. Traditional jobs in India can be as varied and distinctive as ...

There are more than 60 national parks in the United States ... Hawaii does not have any native land-dwelling venomous snakes due primarily to its geographic isolation (although its marine waters ...

This story ran in the April 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine ... A hungry predator—perhaps a spider or bird or snake—ripped off its left front leg, leaving the stub of a bone ...