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 ...

Sometimes, the best way to avoid being eaten is to puzzle your predator. Few animals have come up with such a dramatic way of doing this as certain species of lizards, which can suddenly detach part ...

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 ...

The world of snakes is full of mysteries, and perhaps none is more fascinating than their ability to shed their skin. Found in habitats as diverse as the Amazon rainforest and the Sahara desert, these ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Employees at an Australian reptile exhibit ...

A pet owner has shared what her lizard looks like while shedding his skin—with people comparing the reptile to "ground beef." Animal lover Dani regularly shares videos of her foster and rescue animals ...

Whenever Fu Jiajun returns home from college, the first place she rushes to is her balcony, where she's greeted by her growing family of reptile companions. A large white lizard lies lazily in a white ...

Richard Ritchey, The Reptile Man in the Pacific Northwest for 20 years, is pictured here in October giving Maggie Hernandez, 7, an opportunity to hold alligator D.B. Cooper at Echo Shaw Elementary ...

Salmonellosis is an important reptile-associated zoonotic infection in the United States. Cloacal swabs were collected from reptiles admitted to the Wildlife Center of Virginia, Waynesboro, Virginia, ...