Researchers landed on an uninhabited island known for its archaeological ruins and started looking for snakes, lizards and other reptiles.

On a small island of Papua New Guinea, a 4-foot-long creature moved through the overgrown rainforest covering the site of an abandoned village. Its orange eyes scanned its surroundings, but it wasn’t ...

Warmer weather, infuriating sand gnats, a thick yellow powder of pollen coating anything left outside — yes spring has officially arrived in the Golden Isles. While things like sand gnats ...

Japan's Ryukyu Islands, which includes Okinawa, are the exclusive home to two rare mammals, the Amami rabbit and Ryukyu long-furred rat. These animals are hard to observe, but conservationists wish to ...

The Prague Zoo has joined an international effort to ensure the survival of a rare insect that had been considered extinct ...

Biologists from The University of Texas at Arlington are the first to discover an invasive frog—the greenhouse frog—in the ...

There are two active volcanoes in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park: Mauna Loa and Kilauea. Kilauea is the real "must-see" of the two volcanoes. A 4,000-foot-tall mountain, Kilauea has been active ...

When folk musician Herb McGwyer (Tom Basden) arrives on the remote, sea-swept Wallis Island, he believes he’s coming to play an intimate gig for a few fans. In reality, the concert is for one man: ...

Scientists are finding microplastics everywhere they look for them. A new study finds these tiny plastic particles in sea turtle nests on a remote Malaysian island. Researchers warn that microplastics ...