Do you ever wish you could just crawl out of your own skin? Snakes are some of the few creatures on Earth that actually can. Dozens of times throughout its life, a snake slithers out of its old skin ...

Snakes shed because they grow out of their skin. But do you know you that you shed too? You constantly regenerate the outer layer of your skin, the epidermis. Imagine that you could shed your skin ...

Like other animals and insects, snakes shed their skin for many different reasons. This practice is beneficial to the snake as they grow older, but have you ever wondered why they have to shed in the ...

Photo Illustration: Text that reads "YEAR OF THE SNAKE" with a yellow snake wrapped around it (Justine Goode / NBC News; Getty Images) ...

Snakes are reptiles of the order Squamata that have no limbs on their long, scaly bodies. These reptiles routinely undergo ecdysis, which is the shedding of a layer of skin. They do this to ...

A large South Carolina snake has become a hit on the internet for shamelessly stripping off its skin as cameras rolled at the Kiawah Island Golf Resort south of Charleston. The resulting display was ...

It was a Sunday and a big storm was on the way. The morning was fairly calm, but clouds had moved in and there wasn’t much time before the snow started to fall. In a perfect world, I could have simply ...

Photo Illustration: Text that reads "YEAR OF THE SNAKE" with a yellow snake wrapped around it (Justine Goode / NBC News; Getty Images) The Year of the Snake has started, and the vibes are all about ...