High in the forest canopy, one genus of snake learned how to solve the problem of flight without wings. Here’s how, according ...

Scientists have taken a big step forward in figuring out how some snakes are able to leap from tree to tree without ever touching the ground. In a study, researchers from Virginia Tech used 23 ...

TAMPA, Fla. — As if snakes weren't scary enough, imagine what it would be like if they could fly. Well, sort of. Researchers published an article in Nature Physics explaining how snakes could use ...

The mystery of how flying snakes stay aloft may have been solved by scientists. These unusual reptiles, which are found in rainforests in Southeast Asia, are able to fling themselves from trees and ...

The snake dangles 49 feet (15 meters) off the ground, tail entwined around a branch. Suddenly, the animal rears up and launches, flinging its body toward the forest floor. In other reptiles, the leap ...

Think about going through a thick rainforest, and then, according to the snapshots, you are just walking there, and suddenly, you look at the tree,e and what comes out of it is a snake, and then it ...

A snake researcher always wondered how flying snakes propelled themselves. Then, someone told him he should work with the snakes in The Cube — a... How Snakes Fly (Hint: It's Not On A Plane) Flying ...

A paradise flying tree snake was discovered perched atop the Christmas tree inside a house in Bulacan. In Kuya Kim’s report on “24 Oras,” Friday, Renz Santos said that they first noticed something ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - This may be the last thing that anyone with a touch of ophidiophobia - fear of snakes - would want to hear: flying snakes have surprisingly good aerodynamic qualities.

The world of snakes is equal parts fascinating and fear-inducing. Some folks keep them as scaly companions, while others would sprint in the opposite direction at the mere hint of a slither. Love them ...