Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History investigated old specimens that had been at the museum for decades and discovered they were housing species unknown to science. Between recent ...

A resident of Brisbane, Australia, implied that she planned to move after watching a giant snake emerge from a treetop and stretch its head and neck in the direction of her home. “Moving out asap,” ...

Modern anacondas and pythons are massive, but fossil evidence shows they are not even close to the largest snakes to ever ...

For a long time, the idea of giant animals has mostly been tied to dinosaurs on land. Oceans feel different, quieter, even though they hide their own .

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 ...