The four astronauts of SpaceX's Crew-8 mission moved their Dragon capsule to a different port at the International Space ...

I was so excited I was hyperventilating,” said the herpetologist who found the first queen snake in the state since 1977.

The company announced on Wednesday (May 1) that it's targeting June 8 for its seventh commercial spaceflight, a suborbital jaunt called, fittingly enough, Galactic 07. It will be Virgin Galactic 's ...

Harry Ward-Smith and Rupert Grassby-Lewis, the former an unaffiliated herpetologist from London and the latter a ...

Brood XIX is one group that will emerge this year. Because they only emerge every 13 years, that's enough to cause excitement ...

About 24 hours after being bitten on the thumb by a juvenile boomslang (also called a South African green tree snake), herpetologist Karl Patterson Schmidt died from internal bleeding from his eyes, ...

The 47-year-old herpetologist is bespec­tacled and compact in a yellow shirt dotted with tiny embroidered frogs. He hasn't bothered to roll up his khaki pants, which are soaked to the knees.

NASA's plan to retrieve as many as 30 geological samples from Mars is getting a major rewrite, agency officials said on ...

Researchers said they named the new species after the Latin word “eludens,” meaning “elusive.” The animal’s common name ...

For most people, getting close to a snake’s teeth would be a terrifying prospect. But for herpetologist Bill Ryerson, it’s an integral part of his job. Ryerson has been studying the teeth of 13 snake ...

Snakes are beneficial because they eat rats, mice, and other animals deemed pests. See these tips on what to do if you ...

Another day in science, another massive, ancient snake discovery. Paleontologists in India have unearthed fossilized ...