As dinosaurs lumbered through the humid cycad forests of ancient South America 180 million years ago, primeval lizards scurried, unnoticed, beneath their feet. Perhaps to avoid being trampled by their ...

Snakes frequently flick their forked tongues to collect chemical particles, delivering them to their Jacobson's organ for ...

A snake handler attending a callout in Ormeau, Australia, came across an unusual sight. Mitchell Thorburn, of Gold Coast Snake Catchers, found one of the deadliest snake species in the country, an ...

Robyn White is a Newsweek Nature Reporter based in London, UK. Her focus is reporting on wildlife, science and the environment. Robyn joined Newsweek in 2022 having previously worked at environmental ...

Sea snakes have dramatically reconfigured their sense of smell for underwater life. Researchers found their airborne scent ...

It’s not enough that Burmese pythons are choking down Florida fauna wholesale, now they’re spreading a harmful parasite to native snakes that could travel far afield of the invasive constrictor’s ...

Alex White thought he was watching a huge worm writhing in plastic-wrapped lettuce he’d just brought home from a Sydney supermarket — until a snake tongue flicked. “I kind of completely freaked out ...

University of Connecticut provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. As dinosaurs lumbered through the humid cycad forests of ancient South America 180 million years ago, primeval lizards ...