A green vine snake is seen by the Rio Celeste river in the Volcan Tenorio National Park in Alajuela Province, in northern Costa Rica, on May 24, 2023. The Maleku indigenous people claim to be part of ...

This particular individual, feeling threatened, remained motionless, mimicking one of the branches of the shrub it was on.” ...

Long before today’s tree-dwelling sloths, a 4-ton giant roamed South America — and it may have stood and fought like a bear.

A new amphibious fossil discovered in western Portugal has confirmed its presence in the former Jurassic wetlands.

Devendra, who was a farmer in India, still remembers the moment a snake sank its fangs into his leg while he was picking ...

Scientists undertook the first comprehensive assessment of how often snakes eat their own, uncovering reports of the behavior in more than 200 species ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While the world is home to hundreds of venomous snake species, only about 30 are found in the United States. Even so, certain ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Modern anacondas and pythons are massive, but fossil evidence shows they are not even close to the largest snakes to ever exist.

Modern anacondas and pythons are massive, but fossil evidence shows they are not even close to the largest snakes to ever exist. Scientists have uncovered prehistoric snake fossils that reveal ...

BARCELONA, SPAIN—According to a statement released by the Autonomous University of Barcelona, people living some 5,000 years ago in the Babitonga Bay area on the southern coast of Brazil hunted whales ...

Brazilian Finance Minister Fernando Haddad says he supported the central bank’s decision to liquidate Banco Master SA, and warned that the case may amount to the largest banking fraud in the country’s ...