In their quest to find new species, researchers trudge through muddy swamps, climb towering mountains, and in one case, climbed down into a rocky cave as the smell of rotten eggs hit them in the face.

Cottonmouth snakes are venomous reptiles found in the southeastern US. They are known for their white mouth lining.

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) announced on Saturday, Nov. 23, that deer hunting season has ...

Emergency officials responded to a Sunday evening (Nov. 24) shooting on I-110 that sent one person to the hospital. The ...

Cloaked by darkness and obscured by rain, a “robust” creature moved along the “muddy ground” of a rainforest in Ecuador. Its ...

Each year, millions of straw-colored fruit bats descend on Kasanka National Park for a few months, and scientists are working ...

Located near the confluence of the Solimões and Japurá rivers, Lake Amanã, which means “the path of the rain,” is known as the home of the Amazonian manatee (Trichechus inunguis). During the dry ...

Bornean elephants are purportedly the smallest elephants in the world. Their calves are really diminutive: picture an animal ...

A few years ago, I headed out into a frozen swamp for pictures of a reported bear den. It wasn’t hard to zero in on the ...

Princely Umanmielen’s return to the Swamp ended with a police escort. Umanmielen, who spent three years at Florida before ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — DJ Lagway threw two touchdown passes, Montrell Johnson ran for 127 yards and a score, and Florida ...

The pterosaur had a “very unusual short, but stiff and pointed tail,” researchers said, unique to the species. They named the ...