This piece received an honorable mention in the fiction category of the 2o24 Wallace Prize. Here’s Lisa May, in late-night lamplight, crying on the edge of her bed. Not long ago, the boy was in her ...

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 ...

It's a story that involves scales, sloughs — and spectacles. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Do you ever wish you could just ...

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 ...

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 ...