Snakes have both fascinated and scared humans for as long as we can remember. Especially frightening are the giants that ...

By the time word spread through the Maros region of South Sulawesi, the snake already had the kind of reputation that usually ...

It began with an everyday pond turtle. Ty Park was 6 years old and living with his family in South Korea when his father gave him the tiny turtle. “It was a Reeves turtle from Japan,” the career ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of a giant pair of swimming Ichthyotitan severnensis, a marine reptile that paleontologists believe may have been ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. In the humid swamps of what is now Colombia, there was once ...

When contemplating the largest, native reptile found in Texas and Oklahoma, we might think of large turtles, such as the alligator and common snapping turtle. However, another reptile is larger than ...

What better time to face your fears than at the Iowa State Fair? The Snakes Alive exhibit has been bringing in reptiles from all over the globe to the Iowa State Fair for 50 years. The group of ...

An 11-year-old fossil hunter helped scientists discover remains of a giant marine reptile that lived about 202 million years ...

Researchers have identified the Ichthyotitan severnensis discovery as the largest known reptile to have ever existed on earth ...