As we enter the Year of the Snake, we take the opportunity to revisit the starring roles of this mystic animal in art. Snake is the sixth animal sign in the 12-year zodiac cycle and based on ...

In myth, snakes, or serpents, are often connected to seers and oracles. Teiresias is the most notorious seer in Greek myth. As a young man, he came upon a pair of coupling serpents on Mount Cithaeron, ...

A prehistoric serpent the size of a school bus might sound like something out of a movie, but paleontologists have unearthed fossil evidence of a real-life mega-snake in India. It is named Vasuki ...