Consuming whole animals was not unusual for ancient cultures, but researchers say that a whole snake inside fossilized fecal matter had never been found before.

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Scientists discovered a new wolf snake on Great Nicobar and confirmed it through DNA and body traits. The species needs ...

Saguaro Park in southeastern Arizona, near Tucson, offers a landscape unlike anything you’ll see elsewhere. The park hosts ...

Hundreds of non-native animal & plant species live in Florida. They prey on native critters & damage native ecosystems.

The coucal kills snakes by battering them against the ground or a branch.

A large goanna lizard caused a stir when it paid a visit to a school administration building in Queensland, Australia, just before rush hour.

Vibrant green snakes, masters of camouflage, inhabit diverse global ecosystems from rainforests to savannas. These fascinating reptiles, including the Asian vine snake and emerald tree boa, play a ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (Reuters) - The fossil of a small reptile that inhabited Scotland during the age of dinosaurs 167 million years ago has scientists puzzled. It mixed snake-like traits and lizard-like ...

A strange Jurassic lizard discovered on Scotland’s Isle of Skye is shaking up what we know about snake evolution. Named Breugnathair elgolensis, the “false snake of Elgol” combined hook-like, ...

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The opening pages of the 1943 book The Little Prince recall how the narrator, as a child, once drew a picture not of a hat — as every adult insisted it was — but of a boa constrictor that had ...