In the wild, Ball Pythons will usually burrow to hide from predators or to avoid extreme temperatures during the day. In fact, they are known to be burrow thieves, and will hide out in termite mounds ...

She is the author of My Husband and Other Animals.… The origin of snakes was a mystery for a long time. Did they evolve from burrowing lizards or from marine reptiles? In recent years, evidence for a ...

The skin of the Calabar burrowing python is 15 times thicker and orders of magnitude harder to pierce than the average snake. The skin’s puncture resistance is owed to its layered sheets of collagen ...