The intriguing new species, spanning around four feet and one inch in length, was found to have a "matte black" coloring.

A resurgence of locust activity has been confirmed by Namibia’s Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Land Reform in ...

Among over 100 species of threadsnakes, the Barbados threadsnake stands out as the smallest serpent ever recorded.

Quarrel over beer leads to murder, police say Police have arrested a 20-year-old man in the Kavango West Region on suspicion of raping his sister (12). Elizabeth Kheibes A strange entwined case of ...

A new book explains much of what is known about these diverse animals, including pleasure and sex—as well as the downsides of ...

During his visit, Kraus found several “large” snakes with white chins, the study said. Intrigued, he took a closer look at the animals, compared them with other known species and soon realized he’d ...

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

They're both cuteness overload - from a distance, of course - but which feline megastar do you want to encounter in its ...

He was particularly interested in a group of tree-dwelling snakes with a “poorly understood” classification system, he wrote in a study published April 4 in the peer-reviewed journal Zootaxa. During ...

A NEW species of Pygmy Gecko (Goggia: Gekkonidae) has been discovered by a team of four researchers in the Northern Cape.

About 90 kilometers (56 miles) southeast of Cape Town lies the tranquilly-named town of Betty’s Bay in South Africa, home to ...