How does a death roll work?

During late August 2025, the Hunterian Museum of Zoology in Glasgow hosted Snake Summer, an event covering snakes in science, folklore and fantasy organised by Dr Will Tattersdill of the University of

From mouth to manure, the journeys animals’ meals go on can be very different to human digestion

On being told that they had been bitten by a venomous snake, most eight-year-olds would panic. Not Nicholas Jubber; he was not terrified but disappointed by a diagnosis that contradicted his own. Nich

The ichthyosaur fossil was discovered in 2001, but ...

Britain is a country mercifully bereft of threatening fauna–or so you might believe. John Lewis-Stempel provides a miscellany of our otherwise benign land’s more fearsome critters

It was soft, rubbery and lubricious, a humongous earthworm to the untrained eye. I was pretty happy with my find until the joy of the moment was momentarily ruined when the ‘worm’ turned. It opened it