Recent study sheds new light on the enigmatic early evolution of snakes by examining an unexpected source: their brains. The results emphasize the significance of studying both the soft parts of ...

Humans and other primates have really good vision. One scientist thinks that ability evolved in part to help monkeys and humans quickly recognize... Eeek, Snake! Your Brain Has A Special Corner Just ...

One snake with two heads? Or two snakes with one body? Whatever the answer to that riddle, the new kid (or kids) on the block at Prehistoric Pets in Fountain Valley makes (or make) for an indisputably ...

A neurosurgeon in Australia pulled a wriggling 3-inch roundworm from the brain of a 64-year-old woman last year—which was quite the surprise to the woman’s team of doctors and infectious disease ...

Anthropologist Lynne Isbell was running through a glade in central Kenya in 1992 when something suddenly caused her to freeze in her tracks. "I stopped just in front of a cobra," she says. "It was ...