Science splits the iconic king cobra into four distinct species, reshaping our understanding of venomous snake diversity and ...

New species are being discovered quite often, but those discoveries aren't always made in the same way. This snake, for ...

In a darkened forest of central Vietnam, a 2-foot-long creature with “enlarged” teeth climbed through a tree. Its “secretive” ...

A mysterious snake, hidden in plain sight for decades, has finally revealed its true identity, leaving researchers both ...

Luo Chih-yu, 42, the owner of the Taipei pet shop Pythonism which opened in 2017, is offering potential snake owners the ...

At night in a cave of southern Thailand, a 2-foot-long creature with “blade-shaped” teeth searched for its next meal.

As the Year of the Snake approaches, a pet store in Taipei is offering adventurous customers an opportunity to enjoy the ...

Explore ten of the most colorful snake species, including the Milksnake, Corn Snake, Green Tree Python, and Rainbow Boa.

Researchers slowly realized they’d discovered a new species: Lycodon poyarkovi, or Poyarkov’s big-tooth snake. A Lycodon poyarkovi, or Poyarkov’s big-tooth snake. Photo from L.P. Tran via ...

This led to three years of detailed investigations to identify the snake. The team recently published a paper revealing the ...

A vampire hedgehog, a pygmy pipehorse and a "blob-headed" fish were among the hundreds of new species identified in 2024. The variety of species identified was quite eclectic and names for the new ...

It turned out to be a new species. Jakob Hallermann and Oliver Hawlitschek decided to try and sort out a “common” yet often misidentified group of snakes known as African House snakes ...