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 ...

These snakes can jump—and scientists want to know why. These snakes can jump—and scientists want to know why.

This story appears in the September 2016 issue of National Geographic ... ruins and collecting photos of glyphs. Everywhere she went, she saw references to the grinning snake, especially around ...

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 ...