An olive-colored snake that was kept in captivity for 20 years has revealed a magnificent discovery which led to the ...

The story of the man-eating lions is fairly well-known, but one Field Museum expert went the extra mile to confirm a specific part of the story.

Broadley’s African house snake is now known to be widespread throughout Ethiopia. It is believed to also exist in neighboring ...

I don’t have anything that can eat me or my audience,’ says instructor Bonnie Cromwell of the numerous exotic critters she ...

Dr. Gregory Erickson, professor of anatomy and paleobiology at Florida State University and curator of the school’s Biological Science Museum ... allows these African mammals to profitably ...

Broadley’s African house snakes can reach over ... kept in captivity until 2006 and then donated to a German museum. The new species is a predator, mainly feeding on rodents but generally ...

For more than a decade many researchers have compared the DNA of giraffes from all parts of Africa. These studies have ...

The skulls were directly sampled in the field from across their natural range in Africa, as well as museum ... resulted in the African elephant being split into two distinct species in 2021.

Sometimes the connections we make between disparate things are less than obvious. For Debra Edgerton, the connection between ...

Peregrine falcons have long nested atop the Fruitvale Train Bridge, hunting prey and raising their young. One particularly ...