A vegetarian piranha from the Amazon and a flying dinosaur found on the Isle of Skye are among the species previously unknown ...

Snakes can grow to colossal sizes, although some reports have long been exaggerated. The largest snakes in the world belong to the python and boa families. Which family contains the biggest depends on ...

From the critically endangered Barbados Threadsnake, the world’s smallest snake, to the widely found Brahminy Blind Snake, these species inhabit ... small prey. Yet, many face threats from ...

In North America and other parts of the world, you may encounter ... regions of the United States. Like many other American species, the coral snake features yellow, red and black bands across ...

Our planet is home to more than 4,000 species ... how many ways there are to slither and much more. Snakes have evolved to survive in a huge variety of habitats. Snakes live almost everywhere but you ...

A new and genetically distinct species of green anaconda has been discovered by scientists. The green anaconda is the heaviest, and sometimes longest, snake in the world. The boa species is found ...

The grass snake is the UK ... There are many species of tortoise. Tortoises are slow moving reptiles and are the longest-living land animals in the world. Some are known to have lived for ...