Until now, though, the oldest firm evidence for people living in African rainforests dated to around 18,000 years ago. The ...

Identifying the scaly animal from the Republic of the Congo was “particularly problematic” and led to “long-standing” ...

On Rossel Island, Kraus found Dendrelaphis melanarkys, or the black net tree snake. This 4-foot, 11-inch reptile is easier to ...

Our human species emerged in Africa around 300,000 years ago but scientists don't yet have a clear picture of what kind of ...

Analysis - Our human species emerged in Africa around 300,000 years ago but scientists don't yet have a clear picture of what kind of natural environment we evolved in. Until recently, the dominant ...

The intriguing new species, spanning around four feet and one inch in length, was found to have a "matte black" coloring.

Herpetologist Fred Kraus discovered a new arboreal snake species, Dendrelaphis atra, on Misima Island in Papua New Guinea.

Nature never runs out of ways to surprise us! It is endowed with birds that have beautiful covers of feathers on their bodies ...

Intensifying heat waves, extreme floods and forest fires have devastated parts of Southeast Asia in recent years, spurring ...

A plaque erected to mark the opening of a new electronic library at the Attorney General’s Department was removed because the writing thereon was only in Sinhala and English, and Tamil had been left ...