Same-sex behavior is widespread in primates and may help strengthen social bonds and improve survival under challenging ...

A world of increased heat from climate change means that “entire generations of sexually reproducing reptiles will be dramatically skewed male or female.” This skews the entire balance of species.

An Australian woman woke up in the middle of the night to discover a massive carpet python curled up on her. Rachel Bloor ...

Towering, snow-white, and impossibly elegant, this is the largest waterfowl in the world, a bird so impressive it seems ...

A snake pulled from inside another snake's stomach was a species unknown to science — Cenaspis aenigma!

Rachel Bloor thought her pet dog had curled up on her chest when she felt the weight on top of her, before her husband turned ...

If a female house mouse mates with multiple male house mice, her litter could have multiple fathers. Polyandry, as this mating practice is called, is common for various species. Yet scientists are ...

Garter snakes can survive being frozen solid for hours. Here’s how evolution, biochemistry and behavior have allowed them to ...

A Brisbane woman calmly removed an 8-foot carpet python from her bedroom after waking to find the non-venomous snake on top ...

Navy veteran Al Ellis donated his 207-acre ranch in Wyoming to a group that helps struggling veterans to develop a llama ...

This ancient, leg-bearing snake is rewriting the story of how serpents slithered, and sometimes walked, their way through evolutionary history.

In the kind of nightmare scenario dreaded by anyone contemplating a visit to Australia, a woman in Brisbane woke up with a ...