This iconic snake, with its bulbous head and red, yellow, and black bands, is famous as much for its potent venom as for the many rhymes—"Red and yellow, kill a fellow; red and black ...

The image of airborne snakes may seem like the stuff of nightmares (or a certain Hollywood movie), but in the jungles of South and Southeast Asia it is reality. Flying snake is a misnomer ...

learning to handle snakes and other reptiles. Today he treks into the wild to teach others about anacondas, crocodiles, and other amazing animals. He's the host of the kids' video series Fearless ...

This story appears in the September 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine ... It was ruled by the Snake kings of the Kaanul dynasty, which until just a few decades ago no one even knew ...