The key to this apparent melanistic adaptation, the authors of the study suggest, is pollution, such as nickel, from mining runoff close to the shore of the Pacific Island of New Caledonia. Snakes in ...

Interestingly, panthers — also known as melanistic individuals — are a unique variety of both leopards and jaguars ... However, they are willing to eat a diverse range of animals, including birds, ...

Early birds were also better able to survive the cold conditions after the asteroid strike than many reptiles. This is because like mammals, birds are also warm-blooded, meaning they can regulate ...

A Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoise named Mommy gave birth to four babies, believed to be female, at Philadelphia Zoo Michael Nied has been a digital news editor with PEOPLE since 2025. He has ...

Herpetology is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians (including frogs, toads, salamanders, newts and the gymnophiona) and reptiles (including snakes, lizards, amphisbaenids ...

The video, soon after getting shared, went viral in an instant. Times Now could not confirm the exact date and location of the incident. “Only in Australia will I see a guy chasing away a crocodile,” ...

Biologists had speculated, based on a few fossils found in east Asia, that an ancestral population of iguanids, now extinct, lived around the Pacific Rim and somehow made their way to the middle ...