A snake deserves no pity. (Yiddish) A snake lies hid in the grass. (Roman) Because we focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion. (Egyptian) Don’t trouble a quiet snake. (Greek) If you strike a snake without killing it, it will turn and bite...

‘You snake’ is probably a short form of ‘you snake in the grass’, used of a false friend, though the speaker might use ‘snake’ as a synonym for serpent. In St Urbain’s Horseman, by Mordecai Richler, the hero...

SNAKES. Because of their shape and their relation to the environment, snakes play an important role in the beliefs of various peoples. Their swiftness and peculiar locomotion, along with the periodical sloughing of their skin, their glistening beauty,...

A snake is a limbless, elongate reptile of the suborder Serpentes. Like all reptiles, snakes are ectothermic and covered in scales. All snakes are carnivorous and can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of eyelids, external ears, and...

Just say the word "snake" and some people will cringe with fear. Guess what? Snakes are frightened of humans, too! Usually they try to slither away or hide if people are around. In fact, most snakes aren't harmful to humans at all. The...

There are places snakes belong -- in the Amazon, behind zoo glass, on an encyclopedia page -- and places snakes don't belong. On a plane, for example. That's why the movie Snakes On a Plane, with its simple, to-the- point title, has made...

They slither and slide, crawl and glide _ and fascinate (or frighten) every inch of the way. From iguanas and geckos to pythons and milk snakes, a new exhibit looks at the amazing diversity in the world of squamates _...

Health Reform: If the "detailed" universal care plan offered up this week by Barack Obama is a demonstration of the candidate's substance, he should confine his ambitions to the Senate.As the New York Times put it, Barack Obama's plan "came after months of criticism that...

The snake is graceful, long and slender. Everything from the way it moves to the way it sounds is a grace that captivates many people. To some the abnormal fact of it having no legs is enough to scare people away on first impression.