A new black-eyed snake species, Dendrelaphis atra, was found in an old gold mine in Papua New Guinea. Researchers are studying this non-venomous snake, which could impact plans to restart mining in ...

Across the country's hundreds of cultures the iconic string bag functions as a system of knowledge, writes Scott Waide.

Hidden deep in a once-ravaged mining site on a remote Pacific island, scientists uncovered a sleek, black-eyed creature ...

Soar above the wild, vibrant heart of the South Pacific with this breathtaking drone video of Papua New Guinea. Witness a landscape defined by dramatic contrasts, from the impossibly dense, emerald ...

In the kind of nightmare scenario dreaded by anyone contemplating a visit to Australia, a woman in Brisbane woke up with a heavy weight on her chest, only to find that it was an 8ft-long python.

Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences described 72 new species last year, from elegant birds to strange sea ...

Deep within caves, high up in the mountains and trekking at the two polar extremes of the earth – Will Smith adventured to ...

Cairns features on the itineraries of many ships trekking down from Southeast Asia for their summer season in Australia and ...

Scientists undertook the first comprehensive assessment of how often snakes eat their own, uncovering reports of the behavior ...

It was like riding a slow horse,” said Carl Jackson, a full-time Burmese python hunter with the Florida Fish and Wildlife ...

There are over 3,500 types of snakes on the planet, and most of them know how to climb trees. Although their characteristics ...

This ancient, leg-bearing snake is rewriting the story of how serpents slithered, and sometimes walked, their way through evolutionary history.