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

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

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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 ...

Kraus said he named the new species after the Greek words for “black” and “net” because of its black-edged scales and the resulting “network”-like pattern. Black net tree snakes were ...

These birds have evolved to withstand the equatorial sun and shelter in volcanic rocks along a subtropical coastline. After ...

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 ...

Scientists found a pregnant 1-foot-long creature with a venomous bite in a mountain forest and discovered a new species, a ...

Smaller, younger snakes generally had a paler hue than ... The new species was identified by its coloring, genitalia, scale pattern and other subtle physical features, Kraus said.

Scientists found a 2-foot-long creature “inflating” its “bright blue” skin on a mountain in Sri Lanka and discovered a new species. Photo from Ashan Geeganage and Nayana Sanjeewa via Atthanagoda, de ...