Off Brazil's coast lies Snake Island, home to thousands of highly venomous golden lancehead vipers. The island's isolation ...

She said the snails, which are kept afloat by a raft of air bubbles, may have been carried here in late June, when ocean ...

Eventually, researchers caught several “transparent” nudibranchs, or sea slugs, that didn’t look like anything they’d seen before. They looked closer at these animals, analyzed their DNA and realized ...

Ilha da Queimada Grande, or Snake Island, near Sao Paulo, Brazil, is very dangerous. Thousands of venomous golden lancehead ...

Off the coast of Bunaken Island, Indonesia, two creatures’ vibrant bodies made them stand out against their rocky reef environment as divers swam past, leading to their discovery as two species new to ...

The dams’ average output is 940MW, enough electricity to power Seattle, for example, for a year. At capacity, the dams will ...

Tenders tie up at the processor’s docks, where a tube sucks salmon out of the hold and pumps them into a room-sized vat of slush ice, where they “rest” for six to eight hours to let their muscles ...

Despite intensive research, much about the American eel’s lifecycle remains unknown. What we do know is that these eels spend ...

Garman's sea snake (Hydrophis semperi) is one of only two species of sea snake that don't live in the sea, the other being Crocker's sea snake (Laticauda crockeri).

Authors call for including species in biodiversity assessments; sea snakes are highly sensitive to pollution, temperature fluctuations. New studies spotlight neglected sea snakes like the Yellow ...

Scientists discover a new cryptic snake species in French Guiana. The black and white snail-eating snake is unique to the region and genetically distinct.