This snake in an Australian suburb was carrying an astonishing number of parasitic hitchhikers. Trump orders release of ...

A close look at a stunning pewter mahogany ball python.

Saltwater crocodiles in Australia were pushed to near extinction. With populations growing after years of conservation ...

Rachel Bloor thought her pet dog had curled up on her chest when she felt the weight on top of her, before her husband turned ...

A Brisbane woman calmly removed an 8-foot carpet python from her bedroom after waking to find the non-venomous snake on top ...

Victoria has just suffered some of its worst bushfires since the Black Summer fires of 2019–20. Over 400,000 hectares are ...

In the kind of nightmare scenario dreaded by anyone contemplating a visit to Australia, a woman in Brisbane woke up with a ...

In the middle of the night on Monday, Rachel Bloor stirred in her bed to find a heavy weight curled up on her chest. Half ...

Rachel Bloor got the shock of her life after she reached out to stroke what she thought was her pet dog in Brisbane, ...

Our bones did not begin deep inside the body. They started in the skin, not long after the first complex animals took shape.

A study on rabbits dosed with viper venom suggests that botulinum toxin may alleviate some effects of snakebite, possibly by ...

For more than a century, biologists assumed that the bony plates embedded in the skin of lizards – like natural chain mail – ...