The 62-year-old female snake living at the Saint Louis Zoo laid eggs without having to mate with a male.

A 140-pound female python measuring 17 feet in length was captured in the Florida Everglades - the largest snake ever to be caught at Big Cypress National Preserve.

Scientists have discovered that female snakes have a clitoris — a previously overlooked or dismissed part of their anatomy (and that of many other animals), according to a new study.

Scientists are getting closer to solving the mystery of parthenogenesis, or virgin birth, in the flowerpot snake — a tiny, sightless reptile whose entire species is female. In a study published last ...

In the study, scientists examined female genitalia – hemiclitores – in adult snake specimens across nine species and compared them to adult and juvenile male snake genitalia.

The female python weighed a whopping 215 poundsWildlife conservationists and researchers were left “speechless” following the discovery of a female python carrying 122 eggs. The snake is the ...