As darkness settled over a forest of southern Vietnam, a “long”-limbed creature with “dagger-like spines” climbed into a ...

Researchers recently described the new species alongside 34 others in a 306-page study that has shaken up what researchers understand about Caribbean lizards. The taxonomy of neotropical forest ...

Hoskin found Scawfell Island sun skinks in rainforest areas with “granite rocks,” such as several leaf-filled “gullies.” He ...

As night fell across a remote region of northern Australia, a “velvet” creature emerged from a pile of rocks. Its hard-to-reach habitat and camouflaged coloring helped it go largely unnoticed — until ...

Baboons are the members of the genus Papio, found all over sub-Saharan Africa and parts of the Arabian Peninsula. These ...

Journey into prehistory as the article explores seven monstrous serpents that once ruled land and sea. From the colossal ...

“Stromer assigned the fossil to the genus Carcharodontosaurus, shark-toothed lizard,” researchers said. “At around (32 feet) long, it was one of the largest known land-based carnivores in ...

Lemurs, lizards, whales — all are famed for their ... exhibits at the National Aquarium in Baltimore. Thresher sharks (genus Alopias) are migratory species and use their tails primarily for ...

If you’ve ever wondered if Jurassic Park’s velociraptors would still be intimidating if they were scientifically accurate, ...

Rachael Stuckey gets more than a few double takes when she takes her two pet skunks to Home Depot or stops by the Starbucks drive-through for a pup cup.