Snakes occupy a particularly negative position in human consciousness. They are seen as mindless, anti-social, malevolent creatures. Something to be feared and difficult to relate to. A recent finding ...

Leucism, piebaldism and albinism fall under a suite of skin pigmentation disorders called hypomelanosis. Although animals afflicted with these deficiencies share similarities, the conditions can be ...

Big cats – like lions, leopards and tigers – are among the few animals with enough brawn and moxie to take on a full-grown crocodilian. While these predators certainly target the occasional toothy ...

Where the hunting grounds of apex predators overlap, there are always winners and losers. Large carnivores use their brawn to force smaller rivals off meals, or worse: to wipe out the opposition ...

In late October this year, seven-year-old Jack Tolley became the second person in recorded medical history to be bitten by a cookiecutter shark in Australia. The rarely seen shark left a 73-millimetre ...

During an offshore trawl in southern Portugal earlier this year, researchers caught a bizarre deep-sea animal: a frilled shark. The one-and-a-half-metre male shark was pulled up near the Algarve ...

The Arabian wolf is usually just a shadowy presence in the rugged landscape of Israel's Ein Gedi Nature Reserve. Recently, however, the area's unique, desert-adapted hunters have been getting some ...

Orcas have made a name for themselves as master food flingers, but a video from Florida shows that their much smaller cousins also have a knack for flipping prey to new heights. The footage was ...

Earlier this month, the CT scanner at the Washington University School of Medicine received some unusual patients: two Triceratops skulls! By probing the interior of the fossils, these scans will help ...

Science communicator Preeti Desai happened upon the decaying fish during a recent outing at a beach in Texas City. Viewing the serpentine silhouette from afar, she initially mistook the creature for a ...

The Pantanal is a vast wetland region spanning thousands of square kilometres across Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia. Even though it's not as packed with biodiversity as the Amazon, the visibility of its ...

A tentacled and elusive inhabitant of the deep sea has made a rare (and ill-fated) appearance off South Africa's western coast. Footage of the "giant squid" has been doing the rounds this week – but ...