Py don’t believe it. A stunned woman woke up to find an 8-foot python on her chest after it slithered through the bedroom ...

In the kind of nightmare scenario dreaded by anyone contemplating a visit to Australia, a woman in Brisbane woke up with a ...

There are other genes and enhancers related to limb loss in snakes. One of the genes involved is known as the Sonic hedgehog ...

A Brisbane woman has woken to a terrifying surprise after a 2.5-metre python slipped through her bedroom window and curled up ...

Crowds of two-legged Arkansans met some new four-legged and no-legged friends Saturday during the Show Me Reptile Show at the ...

Scientists undertook the first comprehensive assessment of how often snakes eat their own, uncovering reports of the behavior ...

Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History investigated old specimens that had been at the museum for decades and ...

The state is focusing on animals doing the most harm. Ones taken off the 'Dirty Dozen' list include chameleons and the Cuban ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. This lizard’s physiology rewrites what we thought reptiles ...

Officers dispatched to investigate a report of a “Komodo dragon” inside a vacant Northern California home probably weren’t sure what to expect. The officers found a young ornate Nile monitor had been ...

Side-blotched lizards probably don’t call the game that, but they play a version of it anyway. A new study explains the hidden biology that makes this possible. By Carl Zimmer If you live in the ...

Retired accountant Rees, 80, died in late October after the Coral Adventurer cruise ship left Lizard Island – on the Great Barrier Reef, 90km northeast of Cooktown in far north Queensland – without ...