When you think of snakes, you probably picture eggs—curled up in nests, waiting to hatch. But not all snakes lay eggs. Some defy the stereotype by giving birth to live young, a trait known as ...

An Argentine-German team of scientists, including Senckenberg's Krister Smith, has discovered the world's first fossil evidence of live birth in snakes. The fossil they examined came from the Hessian ...

A new study in Genome Biology and Evolution reveals that egg yolk proteins may have been co-opted to provide maternal nutrition in live-bearing sharks and their relatives. While giving birth to live ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Regular readers will know that I often avoid ...

Kolhapur: Researchers from Thackeray Wildlife Foundation, Tejas Thackeray, Akshay Khandekar and Ishan Agarwal have succeeded in discovering the first ever viviparous genus and five new species ...

Snakes, like most reptiles in the world, are oviparous. This means that rather than producing live young ones, the way mammals do, snakes produce an immature single cell — an egg. Most snakes follow ...