As the Year of the Snake has begun in China, the nation's economy faces huge domestic and foreign challenges. Can introspection and resilience, which the Chinese associate with snakes, help ...

Residents of Zisiqao village in the Zhejiang Province of China are known for their snakes. According to Reuters, the 160 farming families that live there collectively breed over three million ...

Summer. A season of sun, sand, sea … and snakes? Hong Kong’s snake populations are some of the highest in China. In warmer weather, these serpents become more active, and as the countryside ...

A man was attempting to cross the border from Hong Kong into Shenzhen when customs officials in mainland China found over 100 live snakes hidden in his trousers. The unidentified man was ...

East Himalayan banded wolf snakes have only been found in three sites of northern Myanmar and Tibet, an autonomous region controlled by China, the study said. These sites are roughly 200 miles ...

TASS/. The Lunar New Year kicked off in China overnight on Wednesday or at 4 p.m. GMT on Tuesday. The Green Wood Dragon, last year’s symbol, is officially out, and the Green Wood Snake is in.

This article concludes Gary Jones’s three-part review of the Chinese Year of the Snake. Read Part One and Part Two here. Gary Jones is a China correspondent for The Week online, dividing his ...

CHENGDU, April 3 (Xinhua) -- Chinese researchers have decoded the DNA of a unique snake species that reproduces without males, uncovering their fascinating genetic adaptations. The findings were ...

Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington and research institutes in China and Myanmar studied flowerpot snakes to see how parthenogenesis works in these reptiles. (Alexander Murray ...