Snakes, often feared, are crucial for ecosystem balance. Most species are non-venomous, controlling rodent and insect ...

A vegetarian piranha from the Amazon and a flying dinosaur found on the Isle of Skye are among the species previously unknown ...

Discover the species that range from a blob-nosed fish to a snake named after Leonardo DiCaprio.

When it comes to the world of creepy crawlies and slithering predators, spiders and snakes often top the list of feared ...

Photos of the snake captured by Hamad, which he shared on the Singapore Wildlife Sightings Facebook page, are also the first ...

On a sunny rooftop of Oman, a 3-foot-long creature coiled its patterned body and waited to ambush unsuspecting prey. Instead, ...

In a forest of southern China, a 2-foot-long creature with “large” eyes moved along the ground. Something about the “cute” ...

Snake venom is a complex mix of proteins and enzymes. It varies even within the same species. This makes treating snakebites ...

On a sandy island air force base of Oman, a 3-foot-long predator searched for its next meal. Something about the patterned ...

It turned out to be a new species. Forest rangers were visiting a nature reserve in Yunnan Province in October when they noticed an unfamiliar-looking snake near a river. Intrigued, they caught ...

Natural History Museum (NHM) scientists and their partners across the world named almost 200 species in the last 12 months. New finds include a snake from the Indian Himalayas named after actor ...

It turned out to be a new species. Researchers wanted to study a poorly known group of snakes found across the Arabian Peninsula. The snakes, known as Arabian cliff racers, had been documented ...