It's not unusual to shed skin; humans do it, too. "But unlike us, whose skin sheds off in little flakes, snakes produce a whole new layer of skin, and the old layer of skin falls off in one big ...

With the weather warming up, snakes have emerged from hibernation and are shedding their skin as they grow. Although it common to come across shedded skin, the actual molting is more difficult to ...

Dozens of times throughout its life, a snake slithers out of its old skin in a process called "ecdysis," leaving behind papery sheds delicately imprinted with the unique pattern of its scales. It's ...