More information: Isaac H Rossetto et al, Dynamic Expansions and Retinal Expression of Spectrally Distinct Short-Wavelength Opsin Genes in Sea Snakes, Genome Biology and Evolution (2024). DOI: 10. ...

The species with “deep-sea gigantism” was spotted off the remote South Sandwich Islands near Antarctica, researchers said. Getty Images/iStockphoto The summaries below were drafted with the ...

Snakes tell us that adaptation to a hostile environment is both possible and necessary. Take, for example, a species of sea snake that inhabits the inland bays of New Caledonia, an island in the ...