The Center for Biological Diversity launched a lawsuit today against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect a rare Nevada toad and fish whose aquatic habitats may be depleted by groundwater ...

Golden tortoise beetles do not look like real beetles. But they do exist and are plentiful throughout North America.

Green anacondas can grow to almost 9m in length and weigh more than 250kg – that's about the weight of a male grizzly bear.

Today, only one species of the spiny dormouse survives, in southern India. However, the oldest spiny dormouse in evolutionary history, a member of the rodent family, was found in sediment dating back ...

In a world that seems to move faster every day, there’s a place in southern Idaho where the clock ticks a little slower and ...

In a conversation with Mahfuz Russel, renowned naturalist Nigel Alan Marven discusses the challenges and successes of wildlife conservation in one of the world’s most densely populated countries.

The newly named northern green anaconda or Eunectes akayima is reportedly the largest in the world, capable of exceeding ...

Snakes have adapted to nearly every continent on Earth, thriving in a range of habitats, from steaming rainforests to arid ...

One afternoon, you read a paper title and pause, not because it is complex, but because it sounds wrong. Right-handed snakes.

For years, a newcomer to Malta’s countryside went nearly unnoticed. Scattered reports of an unfamiliar snake in the south of ...

Shielded from development and agriculture, many archaeological sites from ancient Greece have now become inadvertent safe ...