Peronia watts is now one of four species that call northern Australia home, with an additional two Peronia species native to ...

The race to Osaka is unfolding like a high-stakes game of snakes and ladders, with shifting winds and ocean currents playing ...

An Australian man whose blood donations are credited with saving the lives of more than 2 million babies has died at the age of 88. James Harrison, from the town of Junee in the state of New South ...

An Aussie man was stoked after 42 wild snakes hatched from a clutch of eggs ... All native reptiles are protected in Australia, and harming or moving them can be punished with heavy fines.

whose traditional land and sea country takes in the northernmost regions of the Kimberley, some of the most anthropogenically untouched land- and seascapes in Australia. The area is seen as one of ...

Over two days last week, Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) Naval Task Group 107 launched live-fire exercises in the Tasman Sea without any warning to the Australian or New Zealand ...

Almost all green sea turtles hatched in areas of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef are born female when temperatures are elevated, a 2019 study published in Global Change Biology concluded.

Despite their marine adaptations, most sea snakes prefer to inhabit shallow waters near land, around islands, and in sheltered waters. Closely related to the Australian venomous terrestrial snakes in ...

The Marine Education Society of Australia states that this common species is accountable for about 90% of all reported sea snake bite deaths. Owing to the curvature of its nostrils, it is also ...

Deadly snakes are on the move in Alice Springs after recent rain and a small reprieve from the brutal heat. Snake catcher Rex Neindorf says the summer has been long, dry and hot with the average ...

Hudson Snake Catching in Gold Coast, Australia, was tasked with removing the eastern brown snake hatchling Brenton Blanchet is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. He has been working at PEOPLE since 2022.

The snakes are mostly found along the east coast of Australia. Anyone who approaches a red-bellied snake are advised not to approach or attack the creature, as they can strike back when they are ...