The snakes compress their bodies into an “S” shape when threatened. Then, they undulate to rub their serrated scales together. As you heard in the video, these movements make a dry ...

To prepare for take-off, a flying snake will slither to the end of a branch, and dangle in a J shape. It propels itself from the branch with the lower half of its body, forms quickly into an S ...

Here’s how to identify them. Look at the head shape. As a rule of thumb, most venomous snakes have a triangular or diamond-shaped head, and nonvenomous snakes have a tapered head. Don’t put ...