The new “fringe-lip eel” is set apart from the other 12 in that genus by the row of sharp teeth along its bottom jaw, relatively large head and eyes, pointed snout, fin placem ...

Inset, a snake bares its fangs. The flycatcher is one of a number of birds that line their nests with shed snakeskin because, a new study reports, it scares off small predators. More Jupiterimages ...

Snake eels, or Ophichthidae ... Its teeth are “numerous, closely arranged in a band, and primarily small and pointed, with slightly larger teeth at ends,” according to the study.