At Arkansas' Lake No. 1, a diamondback water snake known locally as "Ivan" turned out to be Ivy, a female at the center of a spring mating ball. Experts say the scene offered a normal glimpse of snake ...

Long celebrated as nature's answer to Viagra, oysters have more recently been recast as a nutritional 'superfood' - praised ...

Quick Take Not Every Male Mantis Will End Up Headle... Many Males Outsmart Females During Matin... Not All Mantises Need Males Female praying mantises are seen as the femme fatale of the insect world.

African gray foam-nest treefrogs (Chiromantis xerampelina) are common across the savannas and dry forests of southeastern Africa. Despite their unremarkable outward appearance, these small animals ...

There are many observations of animals behaving oddly during eclipses, but the reason may have nothing to do with the sun and ...

It’s tough being a female in a naked mole-rat colony; they live a long life of servitude, maintaining the tunnels of their ...

It was time to find out, and so I called palaeontologist Professor Paul Barrett. Paul is a scientist who has named around 20 ...

Fresh off hatching his last brood, a male Weedy Seadragon at Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San ...

Neil the Seal became a social media sensation almost overnight. Neil is a 5-year-old male southern elephant seal who weighs ...

Without so much as a wave of his flipper, Neil the boisterous young elephant seal departed Tasmania this week, leaving behind ...

Turtles have been perfecting their mating rituals for millions of years, and some of what they do will genuinely surprise you ...