On Sudest Island in southern Papua New Guinea, researchers identified a new snake species named Aspidomorphus dimorphus after a research assistant was bitten by it in 2004. This snake, found in the ...

Prof Eliane Candiani Arantes heads the Laboratory of Animal Toxins at the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Ribeirao Preto ...

Officials released 42 eastern indigo snakes into the wilds of Florida this week in an effort to recover local populations of ...

Fred Kraus, a researcher in the department of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Michigan, was studying ...

It was after their tiny plane crashed into the Bolivian jungle earlier this week that their problems really began ...

But in the natural world, romance looks a little different—and a lot more scaly. Every spring in Narcisse, a quiet town in Manitoba, Canada, thousands of snakes slither out of their winter dens in ...

Unique creatures, odd animals and new species are discovered across the planet. Some are found lurking in remote corners of the world, while others have been hiding right under our noses.