Dear reader, it was not a log: it was a 20-foot Australian Scrub python ( Simalia kinghorni), one of the largest species in the world and the largest in the country. “ I was worried about another car ...

Spider-like creatures living near methane seeps on the seafloor appear to cultivate and consume microbial species on their bodies that feed on the energy-rich gas. This expands the set of organisms ...

Snakes have been spotted in the sea in Ibiza, leaving holidaymakers too scared to go in the water, but there are plenty of ...

Australia is home to the world's most toxic, venomous, and deadliest snakes including Amethystine python (scrub python) and Red-bellied black snake. DEADLY AUSTRALIANS series takes an up-close and ...

The Inland Taipan and sea snakes, both possessing deadly venom, differ significantly in habitat, behavior, and threat to humans. The Inland Taipan, residing in arid Australia, boasts the most ...

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 ...

True sea snakes are part of the venomous elapid snake group that is common in Australia. They evolved, perhaps 20–10 million years ago, from an ancestor similar to modern-day tiger snakes. Numbering ...

Endangered sea snake could threaten Woodside Energy’s Browse gas project. A little-known endangered sea snake could threaten the future of a $29bn gas project off Australia’s coast.

While sea snakes make up a large part of other animals's diets, such as tiger sharks, who have quite the appetite for them, researchers rarely come across such finds in fish.

A trio of marine scientists from Macquarie University, working with a colleague from the Australian Institute of Marine Science, all in Australia, has found evidence suggesting that male ...

Deadly sea snakes have been washing up on the coast of Australia more frequently than usual. The yellow-bellied sea snakes were spotted along the New South Wales coast repeatedly over the last week.

An abnormal number of deadly sea snakes have been washing up along Australia's east coast with seven sightings reported in just one week. Yellow-bellied sea snakes are "highly venomous" says ...