Chinese scientists have found a 125-million-year-old venomous scorpion fossil in northeast China. The discovery, made by ...

In the study of why and how animals look the way they do, color is king—at least, the range of color humans can see. A ...

A newly discovered scorpion fossil is rewriting the story of ancient ecosystems. This rare find, named Jeholia longchengi, ...

We may be more likely to see snakes this time of year, as the weather warms. Use this information to make encounters less scary.

Palaeophis colossaeus, one of the largest known marine snakes of the Eocene, was a coastal predator whose fossils provide ...