South America is known for the spectacular Amazon Basin, which includes waterfalls and dense rainforests but is also home to various exotic reptiles. Many colorful and powerful cold-blooded creatures ...

Paralysis. Fever. Convulsions. These are just some of the symptoms of a venomous snakebite. If you're lucky and live close to ...

A leaping robot could have application in search and rescue, construction, even forest monitoring. But how do you design a robot to stick a landing on a branch or pipe? Biologists worked with robot ...

Engineers have designed robots that crawl, swim, fly and even slither like a snake, but no robot can hold a candle to a ...

During their surveys, the team found several unfamiliar-looking snakes. Intrigued, they took a closer look at the animals, ...

An Ophichthus cuulongensis, or Mekong’s estuary snake eel. Photo from Vo ... snout — discovered as new species in Colombia → 'Large' creature with 'long' limbs found lurking in Thailand cave. It's a ...

Some are horribly disfigured. Others lose limbs or suffer injuries so serious they can no longer work or perform simple tasks without help. Medical bills can run into the hundreds of thousands of ...

Mountain gorillas are the global superstars among the world’s great apes. They rose to fame following their memorable encounter with David Attenborough, vice-president of Fauna & Flora since 1979, ...

A new species of parrot snake lay undetected for nearly nine years ... hunting small lizards and birds among tree branches. Researchers suspect the species may be endemic to Brazil’s Cerrado ...