Scientists undertook the first comprehensive assessment of how often snakes eat their own, uncovering reports of the behavior ...

Hundreds of new species were discovered in 2025, with over 850 new marine species documented and many more described by ...

The Komodo dragon is the largest living lizard on Earth and an apex predator with an unusually high hunting success rate. It often doesn’t kill prey outright, instead inflicting deep wounds and ...

The most popular posts on r/animalid are exotic lizards and rare birds – but it’s the haziest trail cam screenshots that feel the most dangerous, the most spectacular ...

Like all owls, the vision of great horned owls is extraordinary. Special light-sensitive cells contribute to their amazing ...

Because their feet are not adapted to process prey items, shrikes carry large items to thorny vegetation and/or barbed wire fences and promptly impale the prey upon a thorn or barb. This behavior ...

This ancient, leg-bearing snake is rewriting the story of how serpents slithered, and sometimes walked, their way through evolutionary history.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. This lizard’s physiology rewrites what we thought reptiles ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Everybody needs a friend, and that's especially the case in Satisfactory, where it's just you against all of nature and capitalism. Thankfully, the ...

Out-of-state visitors may not know what they’re looking at, but fans of Texas Christian University (TCU) get fired up when SuperFrog runs onto the football field. Human-size and gray, with pointy ...

From the jungles to the tidepools, evolution has produced a surprising number of animals and plants armed with their own built-in artillery. Some spit, some spray, some explode – but all rely on ...

Known as the Spiderman lizard, the Mwanza flat-headed rock agama (Agama mwanzae) is a colorful lizard that lives in semideserts in East Africa. An Instagram post from venueearth features this ...