Reptiles

Thorny devils have a plethora of defenses against predators, including a fake head and a weird jerky walk.

When two top predatory animals come into contact, anything can happen. One eating the other whole, though, is certainly unexpected.

Crocodile attacks in Australia have risen since conservation measures helped their numbers skyrocket. Now, scientists are harnessing their environmental DNA to find these predators before they strike.

Ancient origins of cobras traced back to Asia, before jumping continents to spread across the world up to 37.5 million years ago.

In this extract from "Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans," Bill Schutt looks at the creatures with the strongest bite forces in the world.

A coastal taipan named Cyclone recently delivered three times the average amount of venom for its species in one go, setting a new record.

A captive Brazilian rainbow boa initially declared male by a vet gives birth to 14 snakelets in a rare case of parthenogenesis at a U.K. college.

A Western Pacific leatherback migrating from her nesting grounds in the Solomon Islands dove to a whopping 4,409 feet, conservationists say.