Chewing food into little pieces may be helpful for human digestion, but snakes prefer to ingest their meals in one gulp.

Despite having a reputation for being evil, snakes are fascinating, diverse, and intelligent animals that play a vital role ...

A monitor lizard emerged from a pond and scratched its neck against a shrub as stunned parkgoers watched. Footage shows the 6ft reptile moving its body back and forth on a rough branch, oblivious to ...

Scientists used gene-editing technology to create “Peter Pan” tadpoles that would eat the eggs of Australia’s cane toads—and ...

I was lucky enough to have a companion who was always willing to participate in an outdoors adventure. Those adventures ran ...

From Julia Donaldson's Where's My Mum? to Jill Murphy's Meltdown!, these are the children's books I've read over and over ...

One of the most interesting strategies animals use to avoid predators is a behaviour known as thanatosis, or “playing dead.” ...

Mongooses and weasels, often mistaken, are distinct creatures with unique traits. Mongooses, related to cats, thrive in ...

Vulnerable amphibians are getting some help from an effective and pretty simple intervention–wildlife underpass tunnels. Long ...

The biggest snake in the world is the green anaconda ... They mainly hunt at night and like to dine on insects but are also known to eat frogs and mice. The way they trap and eat their prey ...