Lots of snakes can detect heat, but only three families evolved true infrared targeting. Meet the most iconic predator from ...

Discovered in Barbados in 2006, this worm-sized snake went misidentified for a century — and now, it may disappear before ...

For a small village near the Sinharaja Forest Reserve in Sri Lanka, “snow-white monkeys” have become a major tourist attraction, reports contributor Malaka Rodrigo for Mongabay. These white monkeys ...

On Rossel Island, Kraus found Dendrelaphis melanarkys, or the black net tree snake. This 4-foot, 11-inch reptile is easier to ...

The intriguing new species, spanning around four feet and one inch in length, was found to have a "matte black" coloring.