A new study indicates the giant reptile Deinosuchus is not a close relative of modern alligators, as scientists previously ...

A 113-million-year-old hell ant that once lived in northeastern Brazil is now the oldest ant specimen known to science, finds a new report. The hell ant, which was preserved in limestone, is a member ...

In a groundbreaking discovery in western India, scientists have uncovered fossil vertebrae from the largest snake ever to ...

Researchers may have discovered Mississippi's largest ever mosasaur after pulling a Cretaceous-aged fossil out of a riverbed ...

On Rossel Island, Kraus found Dendrelaphis melanarkys, or the black net tree snake. This 4-foot, 11-inch reptile is easier to ...

An international team of paleontologists, geologists, geoscientists and Earth scientists has found evidence that a type of ...

Scientists recently split the king cobra into four separate species — as if one wasn’t terrifying enough. Here’s what these ...

Ruby Reynolds and her father were on the beach when they discovered Ichthyotitan severnensis - the largest-ever marine ...

In the lush prehistoric jungles of what is now northern Colombia, a colossal predator once ruled the swampy lowlands. The ...

Scientists working in Colombia have discovered the largest snake on the planet, an animal that blows away previous records.

The Guam kingfisher is no longer found in Guam, but thanks to the help of a handful of zoos, including Cincinnati's, there's ...

Fred Kraus was the visiting scientist on a mission to explore the habitats of the tree-dwelling snakes of the region, but as ...