The Ellen Trout Zoo is seeing success in an ongoing effort to breed and help save an endangered snake species.

As night settled across Laos, an elusive 2-foot-long predator emerged from its hiding place and began climbing along the rocks. Its “cryptic camouflage” and “secretive” lifestyle helped it go largely ...

The Saint Lucia racer, the rarest snake on Earth, inhabits only a small island off Saint Lucia. With fewer than 30 ...

According to Montero, the myth implies that, after a god’s passing, its essence gets imprisoned in a mundane creature, ...

Ancient Deity, Pet and Endangered Species. Why Is Axolotl Mexico's Most ... Under ideal conditions, an axolotl could heal itself from snake or heron biting and survive the dry season buried ...

Hudson Snake Catching in Gold Coast, Australia, was tasked with removing the eastern brown snake hatchling Brenton Blanchet is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. He has been working at PEOPLE since 2022.

On an average, it takes up to 12 years to add a species to the federal Endangered Species list, a backlog activists say puts ...

Nearly 20,000 live animals, all endangered or protected species, have been seized in a global operation against wildlife and ...

Preserving the curious amphibian is not an end for its supporters, but a means for saving the place where it came to be ...

While there are no official estimates of the current axolotl population, the species Ambystoma mexicanum — endemic of central Mexico— has been catalogued as “critically endangered” by the ...