Snakes have a reputation for being quick to strike, but several species rarely live up to that image. Breeders who work with these animals select for calm temperaments, and many of the snakes kept as ...

Sargassum, a type of floating brown algae, is increasingly blanketing Florida's coastlines. While beneficial for marine life, large amounts of sargassum on beaches can be an issue for residents and ...

The Southeast coast and the Florida Keys are usually most heavily impacted by clumps of sargassum washing ashore. Rotting sargassum causes the production of hydrogen sulfide gas, which smells like ...

The oldest known stone tools discovered so far date to about 3.3 million years ago at the Lomekwi 3 site in Kenya, pushing toolmaking back nearly a million years beyond the long-accepted Oldowan ...

A survey has revealed the vast array of wildlife – some never seen before – living within the south-east Asian country’s karst ecosystems. The work was led by international wildlife conservation ...

Taiwanese paleontologists have discovered fossil evidence that pythons up to 4m long inhabited Taiwan during the Pleistocene epoch, reporting their findings in the international scientific journal ...

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Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History identified more than 70 species new to science this year, uncovering life forms that range from biting fruit flies and a tiny mouse opossum to a ...

From fruit flies that bite to a tiny mouse opossum and a feathered dinosaur preserved with the remains of its last meal, more than 70 new species were described this year by researchers at the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Vietnam’s border guard command has seized more than 7 metric tons of rare wildlife body parts from two wooden fishing boats moving goods from ...

A ball python was recovered from a home in Vero Beach on April 29 after being reported to Indian River County Animal Control. The 4- to 4½-foot male ball python was removed from the property and ...