Camouflage Alone The popular belief is that chameleons change color solely to disappear into their surroundings. While ...

The shocking truth behind the platypus’s venomous sting.

Tropical cyclones have been dangerous and deadly even in the time of giants but paleontologists turned to some of the ...

The modern coelacanth is a famous "living fossil," long thought to have died out, but first fished out of deep waters in the ...

Curiously, I’ve never written about one of the most common species of animal that occurs in Minnesota. Not once in the ...

Two tiny pterosaurs, preserved for 150 million years, have revealed a surprising cause of death: violent storms. Researchers at the University of Leicester discovered both hatchlings, nicknamed Lucky ...

The cause of death for two baby pterosaurs has been revealed by University of Leicester paleontologists in a post-mortem 150 ...

Scientists found the skeleton of an extinct hypercarnivore in Argentina’s southern Patagonia. The apex predator feasted on ...

When we think of the prehistoric world of dinosaurs, we often forget that they shared their habitat with numerous other fascinating creatures. Among these were many remarkable reptiles that have their ...

If you’ve ever jumped three feet in the air at the sight of a “twig” that turned out to be a snake, welcome to the monsoon season in India. Along with fresh air, lush greenery, and surprise power cuts ...

Neuroscience demonstrates that all reptiles possess brains and neuro-capacities comparable to our own. In this interview, Gordon M. Burghardt, Alumni Distinguished Service Professor of Psychology and ...

Reptile hunter removes 16-foot python from LA apartment building dumpster Joseph Hart, sporting just jeans and a T-shirt, carefully removed the python from the apartment building dumpster in Los ...