For a man in a Blue Mountains town west of Sydney, Australia, he had good reason for leaving the mower in the driveway at the end of December: An extremely dangerous snake was coiled inside.

Narellan Snake Catchers in Australia relocated the eastern brown snake from the Sydney home Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has ...

Its tongue “is bluish-black with tiny light blue dots.” Photos show the blotchy brown coloring of the new species, which is “similar to that of the tree branches it inhabits.” The snake ...

Silvery-blue with dark bands, one of the world’s most venomous snakes, found in the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia. Glossy olive or purple-brown, aggressive when provoked, found in coral reefs around ...

Scientists found a 2-foot-long creature “inflating” its “bright blue” skin on a mountain in Sri Lanka and discovered a new species. Photo from Ashan Geeganage and Nayana Sanjeewa via Atthanagoda, de ...