To help them swim, true sea snakes have evolved tails shaped like paddles and narrow scales along their bellies so that they can maintain a laterally compressed shape to aid swimming. Sea kraits have ...

Olive sea snakes (Aipysurus laevis) are notorious for approaching divers. The animals have been known to swim right up to an unexpecting person and lick them, and they’ve even pursued people who’ve ...

In contrast to most totally aquatic sea snakes, they possess a paddle tail with which to swim efficiently but are often on the beach resting or reproducing. Extremely venomous, they incapacitate ...

The sea snakes were all around the island, swimming along the coral reef or looking for spots to nap, occasionally surfacing to breathe. The snakes were fairly easy to find and I was able to get ...

The turtle-headed sea snake is losing its stripes, and researchers suggest that the change reflects adaptation to fouled oceans. Amid cuts to federal funding, US universities tighten budgets, forcing ...

But these islands aren’t entirely snake-free. Sea kraits sometimes come ashore to lay their eggs. Occasionally non-native species have been found on isolated islands, most likely having been ...

The Hawaii Department of Agriculture’s Plant Quarantine Branch was notified by the state land department that a live yellow-bellied sea snake had been found pinned under a log at Honolii Beach.