Do you ever wish you could just crawl out of your own skin? Snakes are some of the few creatures on Earth that actually can. Dozens of times throughout its life, a snake slithers out of its old skin ...

Like other animals and insects, snakes shed their skin for many different reasons. This practice is beneficial to the snake as they grow older, but have you ever wondered why they have to shed in the ...

Snakes are reptiles of the order Squamata that have no limbs on their long, scaly bodies. These reptiles routinely experience ecdysis, the shedding of a layer of skin. They do this to accommodate ...

A state-endangered snake from the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium’s conservation program seems to be making a full recovery from skin cancer at the Columbus Zoo & Aquarium. The Zoo says the unique radiation ...

A large South Carolina snake has become a hit on the internet for shamelessly stripping off its skin as cameras rolled at the Kiawah Island Golf Resort south of Charleston. The resulting display was ...

Finding an enormous snake skin can be unsettling, especially when the scary serpent is missing in action. That’s exactly what happened in a town in England when a 7-year-old girl found a boa ...