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 their skin several times per year. Shedding is a good indicator that snakes are getting enough nutrition, that their environments have proper humidity levels, and that they are overall ...

If you have a wood pile, you may have come across a shed snake skin — a translucent wrapper resembling an onion skin, imprinted with the snake’s scale pattern. Or perhaps you’ve seen one along a ...

Caterpillars shed their skin several times as they grow, and in the final stage of metamorphosis, they form their pupa (chrysalis). As the warm summer and spring suns arrives, it signals a change in ...

Damian Lettoof is affiliated with the Australian Society of Herpetologists, Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, the Ecological Society of Australia and the Society of Environmental ...