The yellow-bellied slider is a semiaquatic turtle, native to southeastern United States, where it is the most common turtle species. As the name suggests, they have a yellow belly that is buried under ...

In the book "What We Inherit," experts unpack long-standing myths about genes and how those myths could shape public opinion around emerging embryo-selection technologies.

Australia’s brightest defender grew up selling fruit to tourists, catching fish and camping near her family’s farm; these days she’s a long way from the snakes and chickens of her childhood.

Blind snakes stood out as the only major group with no recorded cases of cannibalism. This may be because they never evolved the highly flexible lower jaws seen in other snakes, which allow them to ...

Year of the Horse, but what year were you born? Find your Chinese New Year Animal here, and see exactly what it means for ...

In honour of this gesture, each year in the 12-year lunar cycle is named for one of the animals. The year of your birth ...

Don’t worry if you don’t have a personal geomancer on your phone — we’ve done the cosmic legwork for you, rounding up this ...

By Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN Grab your saddle and put on your riding boots — it’s time to stampede into the Year of the Horse. Lunar New Year, widely considered the most important event of the year in ...

An 11-foot anaconda gives birth to a new batch of baby snakes at the reptile zoo! More babies expected later today.

Unlike most snakes, Dumeril’s boas give live birth, protecting embryos internally until fully developed neonates emerge.

She's more than 23 feet long, and verified by Guinness World Records. Snake rescuer Budi Purwanto runs a shelter for rescued pythons. He saved the record-breaking snake Ibu Baron, a name which means ...