Saguaro Park in southeastern Arizona, near Tucson, offers a landscape unlike anything you’ll see elsewhere. The park hosts ...

Loggerhead turtles are able to sense Earth's magnetic field in two ways, but it wasn't clear which sense the animals use to ...

Regurgitalites — fossilized vomit — are extraordinarily rare. They require an improbable sequence of events. The expulsion ...

An experiment on reptile decomposition aims to shed light on a variety of paleontological mysteries, including why so many ...

Scientists have long known that plastic waste is bad for marine animals. A new study quantifies how little ingested plastic ...

Initially established in Everglades National Park in the early 1980s, Burmese pythons quickly put a stranglehold on Florida's ...

The newly-discovered snake, L. irwini is not the first species to be named after Irwin — and likely won’t be the last.

We were cleaning a snakehead fish when something inside kicked. A baby turtle had been swallowed whole, trapped in the ...

Researchers analyzed venomous snake strikes, revealing remarkable speed and precision in less than a blink of an eye.

Creatures consuming species that contain deadly toxins have evolved a suite of clever strategies to stay alive.

Mac Poepoe grew up diving in the waters off Molokai to spear honu — Hawaii’s distinct species of green sea turtle — that helped feed his family. He also often saw other fishermen hunt honu for profit, ...