Monkeys, like humans, have an in-built ability to spot snakes ultra-fast, and new research suggests scales are a key visual ...

At night in a cave of southern Thailand, a 2-foot-long creature with “blade-shaped” teeth searched for its next meal.

took to Quora to share some images of the well-preserved fossils. Take a look: This discovery underscores the complexity of snake evolution and prompts further study into how these limbless ...

Monkeys exhibited an immediate response to images of snakes and salamanders with snake skin, but not to images of salamanders without scale. Dr. Nobuyuki Kawai from Nagoya University in Japan has ...

Kawai's first experiment demonstrated that monkeys exhibited an immediate response to images of snakes but not to images of salamanders, implying a specific fear of snakes. On the basis of this ...

Even monkeys and human infants who have never encountered a snake react to pictures of them, demonstrating our innate fear of these creatures. Kawai's first experiment demonstrated that monkeys ...

WEIFANG, China (AP) — The brightly lit snake lanterns are topped with oversized heads that don’t fit the usual image of the ...

Primates, including humans, instinctively fear snakes due to their scales, not their unsettling, slithering movements, Nagoya ...