Not every snake sticks to dry land. While most people picture them slipping through leaves or sunbathing on rocks, the truth ...

A second yellow-bellied sea snake has washed up on the Coromandel Peninsula. The Department of Conservation (DoC) was alerted ...

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 ...

Two large specimens, including a 2-metre snake, were spotted slithering through a garden in Son Servera. The COFIB captures ...

An Iraqi snake experts group announced the documentation of the presence of the "yellow-bellied sea snake" scientifically known as Hydrophis platurus, a member of the highly venomous elapid family, ...

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

Victor Beccari couldn't shake the feeling he had seen the fossil before: it was a slab of rock containing the impression of a ...

More than 96% of deforestation, or human-caused, permanent removal of forest cover, occurs in the tropics.

Isla Tortuga was formed relatively recently from a volcano that rose out of the sea floor off Baja California and is home to ...

Pesticides, habitat loss, and light pollution are threatening firefly populations worldwide, but even in urban areas, some ...

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

Turtles live centuries with almost no cancer. Here’s what researchers found inside their ancient cells — and why it matters ...