BHPian OffRoadFun recently shared this with other enthusiasts:First, the farm. As pointed out in the last update, we had a snake which called our place home. My wife not only allowed me to go to the ...

Snakes are one of the few animals that regularly eat their own kind. In fact, there is a particular snake that feasts on a ...

The state of Florida‘s ‘Dirty Dozen’ invasive species list recently got an update, adding three new species to the list and remove three that pose less of a threat. Remaining steadfast on the list is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A nile monitor, in its native range. Monitors are one of Florida's problematic invasive species. For invasive reptile hunters in ...

Editor's note: We've updated this story with new information. Since last November, when a prehistoric-looking shoebill landed on a tour boat in Uganda and appeared to dwarf observers, the birds have ...

MONROE, La. (KNOE) - Meet Rah! He’s a Nile monitor lizard at the Louisiana Purchase Gardens and Zoo in Monroe. They’re known to be intense predators with fast speeds, sharp teeth, and powerful tails ...

This animal's armor has upended a key law of evolution For more than a century, biologists assumed that the bony plates embedded in the skin of lizards – like natural chain mail – were an ancient ...

If you haven’t heard of a goanna before, think VERY LARGE LIZARD. It’s a general name for several varieties of monitor lizard that live in Australia. And like so many, shall we say, “startling” ...

What do Nile monitor lizards look like? Nile monitors are olive green to black in color and have cream-colored or yellow stripes on the jaw and head. They have rows of yellowish, V-shaped stripes ...

The Nile monitor is an invasive, aggressive lizard species established in parts of Florida. These large lizards can grow over 6 feet long and are skilled swimmers and climbers. While not venomous, ...

The opening pages of the 1943 book The Little Prince recall how the narrator, as a child, once drew a picture not of a hat — as every adult insisted it was — but of a boa constrictor that had ...

Scientists have discovered a 167-million-year-old reptile on Scotland’s Isle of Skye that appears to be a lizard and snake hybrid. Credit: Neil Howard – CC BY-NC 2.0 via Flickr. Scientists have ...