Ruby Reynolds and her father were on the beach when they discovered Ichthyotitan severnensis - the largest-ever marine ...

Reptiles living in open habitats generally have brighter coloration than species living in denser vegetation. This is shown ...

Reptiles in open habitats evolved brighter colors over time. This helped them reflect sunlight and survive climate change.

The trade-off of this hardy external layer is that it doesn't expand; it remains relatively inflexible and constricts the ...

Reptiles living in open habitats generally have brighter colouration than species living in denser vegetation. This is shown ...

On a small island of Papua New Guinea, a 4-foot-long creature moved through the overgrown rainforest covering the site of an ...

On an island in Papua New Guinea, a 3-foot-long creature with a black tongue made itself at home in a village garden — or it tried to, at least. Locals spotted the “smooth” animal and caught it. They ...

Fred Kraus visited Rossel Island as part of an ongoing project to document the region’s reptile diversity ... its black-edged scales and the resulting “network”-like pattern.

In a remote forest of northern Myanmar, a 2-foot-long creature moved along the ground. Something about it caught the ...

On a small island of Papua New Guinea, a hawk tried to attack a “large” 4-foot-long predator but ended up becoming its prey instead. A scientist stumbled up on the scene and watched the “shiny” animal ...