Most of us will never encounter a real-life scenario in which we tangle with crocodiles, get bitten by venomous snakes, or ...

On a small island of Papua New Guinea, a 4-foot-long creature moved through the overgrown rainforest covering the site of an ...

Damon Corrie, president of the Caribbean Herpetological Society, acknowledged that Hedges is the first to scientifically examine and describe the snake, but the so-called discovery makes locals ...

From the mines of Papua New Guinea to the water tanks of India, here are where researchers are finding new species.

On a small island of Papua New Guinea, a hawk tried to attack a “large” 4-foot-long predator but ended up becoming its prey instead. A scientist stumbled up on the scene and w ...

On an island in Papua New Guinea, a 3-foot-long creature with a black tongue made itself at home in a village garden — or it tried to, at least. Locals spotted the “smooth” animal and caught it. They ...

In the new Discovery Channel special, "Eaten Alive," snake researcher and conservationist Paul Rosolie sets off into the Amazon Rainforest to do the impossible: capture an anaconda, allow it to ...

The fossilized skeleton of the newly discovered snake species Hibernophis breithaupti, which lived 38 million years ago in what is now western Wyoming, reveals insights into the evolution and ...