13-08-19 There was once a little child whose mother gave her every afternoon a small bowl of milk and bread, and the child seated herself in the yard with it. When she began to eat however, a snake came creeping out of a crevice（裂缝） in the wall, dipped i...

13-05-09 A George Washington University biologist and a team of researchers have created the first large-scale evolutionary family tree for every snake and lizard around the globe. The findings were recently published in the journal BMC Evolutionary Biology....

12-09-12 A form of virgin birth has been found in wild vertebrates for the first time. 野生脊椎动物界首次发现单性生殖案例。 A virgin female and her son Researchers in the US caught pregnant females from two snake species and genetically analysed the litters....

12-08-24 A Nepali farmer who was bitten by a cobra in his rice paddy field has killed the snake by repeatedly biting it in return. 尼泊尔一位农民在自家稻田被一条眼镜蛇咬伤，他随即用不断的啃咬作为反击，直至杀死了这条蛇。 The reptile was not among the snake sp...

12-05-15 A Wal-Mart customer is recovering after he was bitten by a rattlesnake in a garden department of the store chain. 一位顾客在沃尔玛购物的时候在花园区被一条响尾蛇咬伤，目前身体情况正在恢复中。 Mica Craig said the reptile（爬行动物） pounced as he was...

12-02-22 A small population of rattlesnakes（响尾蛇） that already is in decline in southern Illinois faces a new and unexpected threat in the form of a fungus rarely seen in the wild, researchers report. The eastern massasauga rattlesnake (Sistrurus catenat...

12-02-08 In the Warring States Period, a man in the state of Chu was offering a sacrifice（祭品） to his ancestors. After the ceremony, the man gave a beaker of wine to his servants. The servants thought that there was not enought wine for all of them, and d...

11-10-10 Sarah came running in. Look what I found. Over the top of the paper I was reading came a crispy（易碎的） , crumbling long object that caused me to jump. It was a snake skin that had been shed by one of our many garden snakes. Isn't it beautiful? sa...

10-12-22 In the Warring States Period, a man in the State of Chu was offering a sacri fice（祭祀，供奉） to his ancestors. After the ceremony, the man gave a beaker（烧杯，大口杯） of wine to his servants. The servants thought that there was not enough wine...

10-03-03 Sixty-seven million years ago, when dinosaur hatchlings（刚孵化的幼体） first scrambled（攀登，争夺） out of their eggs, their firstand lastglimpse of the world might have been the open jaws of a 3.5-metre-long snake named Sanajeh indicus, based on...