We explain why snakes have to shed their entire top layer of skin in one go as part of their growth cycle and how often they shed.

Meet animals that grow for a lifetime, sometimes for centuries, and discover why dinosaurs did not, despite their huge size.

One of the strange, small reptiles living within the giant deserts of Southern Africa is the barking gecko. It is strange to ...

Clear out your shelves for a bumper new crop of books by authors including Naomi Klein, Rebecca Solnit and Xand Van Tulleken, ...

A new study published in Science shows that these plants—called cycads—use infrared radiation from heat as a signal to ...

South Florida researchers warn the Everglades face an Asian swamp eel invasion, depleting small fish and starving wading birds, threatening the wetland food web.

An interactive toolbox for standardizing, validating, simulating, reducing, and exploring detailed biophysical models that can be used to reveal how morpho-electric properties map to dendritic and ...

A University of Kentucky-led research group is studying snake fungal disease across Kentucky to answer a question with high stakes for wildlife: Do ...

Pest control experts are warning the public about a newly discovered invasive coin-marked snake species in Malta that could ...

An invasive pest that hitchhiked into New South Wales on a vehicle travelling from Queensland has been captured, state ...

A cane toad that hitchhiked into New South Wales on a vehicle travelling from Queensland has been captured, state authorities ...