Evolutionary advantage often makes for show-stopping stuff--a cheetah's speed, for example, or a moth's almost perfect mimicry of tree bark. In some snails, however, it's simply down to a poor fit ...

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After a long night of searching for snakes in Ecuador, Alejandro Arteaga and his team of researchers got ready to retire. The evening’s excursion, in a swampy region of rain forest, hadn’t yielded any ...

Ecuador has five new species of snake, described by science for the first time. But these critters aren’t just any rainforest snakes: the new species have a diet that’s exceptionally weird, eating ...

The five snakes, located in Peru and the rainforests of Ecuador, sustain themselves in part by sucking snails out of their hard-shelled habitat by using a modified jaw, which allows them to go where ...

Researchers have described five new species of snail-eating snakes from the upper Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador and Colombia and the Chocó-Darién forests of Panama. Three of the new species were named ...

An expedition in Ecuador has uncovered five new species of snail-eating snakes. Four out of the five species are threatened with extinction due to habitat loss. The researchers who conducted the ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

BOISE, Idaho -- Federal officials say a tiny snail that lives along a 65-mile stretch of the Snake River in southern Idaho still deserves protection as a threatened species. The Idaho Statesman ...

Scientists discovered five new brightly-colored species of snake in the jungles of Panama. One of the snakes was named by actor Leonardo DiCaprio in honor of his mother, Irmelin Indenbirken. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Five previously unknown tree-dwelling snake species, including one named in honor of Leonardo DiCaprio's mother, were found in the ...

New research has uncovered five new species of snakes in Ecuador and Peru with peculiar dining etiquette: they suck the viscous bodies of snails out of their shells. New research led by the American ...