Steve Darling, the group's secretary, said "we have discovered orchids and a rare kind of fungi that have not been seen in this part of Kent for many years". He said: "Out of adversity came the ...

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

South Carolina’s largest alligators may be in jeopardy as hunting for trophy animals continues. The overall gator population is stable, but state officials worry about the big ones.

A puncture in the fossilized neck of a winged reptile that flew with the dinosaurs suggests the creature became a feast for a ...

The animals of Critter Encounters Animal Sanctuary — everything from a lop-eared bunny to tarantulas and a pair of fennec ...

Sally Chait is being hailed as a hero for saving a giant Nile monitor lizard found in her complex, and returning it safely to its home.

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

Well-preserved remains found in Germany in 2015 have now been identified as a new pterosaur species, solving a 200-year-old ...

Herpetology is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians (including frogs, toads, salamanders, newts and the gymnophiona) and reptiles (including snakes, lizards, amphisbaenids ...

Modern oceans, for comparison, max out at trophic level five or six, represented by apex predators like orcas, sperm whales, ...

January, five of us set out for Clyde Peeling’s Reptileland in Allenwood, Pennsylvania. We encountered some stretches of ...

Field-defining discoveries can come from new and unexpected places,” palaeontologist Natalia Jagielska told IFLScience.