A number of species will play dead to avoid predators, but dice snakes have taken this to another level. Going far beyond the normal strategy of staying motionless, they put great detail into faking ...

(CNN) — Awards season may be over for human actors this year, but there’s no rest for some of nature’s most audacious thespians. Dice snakes can fake their own death when being attacked by predators, ...

A species of snake that fakes its own death to avoid being being eaten by predators uses some pretty gory tactics. Dice snakes put on a convincing show of dying by lying still, with some upping the ...