Chewing food into little pieces may be helpful for human digestion, but snakes prefer to ingest their meals in one gulp. Unlike human jaws, snake jaws are not connected to their skulls. This allows ...
To understand how these large snakes can regenerate their intestines without intestinal crypts, scientists sequenced the RNA genes of pythons. By learning more about this process in reptiles, ...
Researchers at the University of Kentucky are searching for signs of a fungal disease impacting the state's native snakes.