What is a sea snake? ‘Not all snakes living in the sea are sea snakes,’ explains Dr David Gower, Merit Researcher at the Museum and a specialist in snakes.. Biologists use the term ‘true sea snake’ ...

Most snakes can see a limited range of colours, but the blue-banded sea snake has regained genes lost millions of years ago that may let them see ultraviolet and blue light. Close.

Meet Palaeophis colossaeus, a 40-foot-long sea snake that once slithered through prehistoric waters where camels now traverse the Sahara Desert.Imagine spotting this behemoth from a distance - a ...

Images show aipysurine sea snakes: Emydocephalus annulatus (left) and Aipysurus duboisii (right). Claire Goiran / Shine R, Shine TG, Brown GP, Udyawer V. 2023 Sexual dimorphism in aipysurine sea ...

A stock photo shows a sea snake swimming through the water. Scientists have found them dwelling in the twilight zone, paulbcowell/Getty. Australian scientists set out to discover what could be ...

A banded sea snake swimming freely. Some species of venomous sea snakes lost their ability to see in color when the moved from the land to the ocean about 110 million years ago.

A highly venomous, 3-foot long sea snake with a sizable gouge out of its side washed up on Sunshine Beach. Facebook/Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers 24/7 ...

A new paper in Genome Biology and Evolution finds that the annulated sea snake, a species of venomous snake found in ocean waters around Australia and Asia, appears to have evolved to see an ...