All animals live in or seek a set of climate conditions they find tolerable. This “climate envelope” partially determines ...

Homes in Wales are being invaded by wild snakes which slither into lofts to escape cold winter weather ...

Britain’s largest wild snake is “thriving” in the part of North Wales they have colonised, a study has concluded. Around 240 ...

The Aesculapian snakes, the largest in the UK, have a 'thriving' population in one part of Wales, where they have become part ...

Flying and marine animals are relatively free to follow these shifting niches. Birds and butterflies are two examples. New ...

Owners could be forced to keep pets indoors or, in some cases, prohibited from owning them, to protect wild animals ...

You do not expect stork to be standing in a West Devon field, but the striking white birds are there in force.

Scottish ministers are being urged to order a report into cats' impact on wildlife which could see pets banned from areas ...

"It really proves that life... uh... finds a way," said Shreveport Aquarium, Louisina's curator of live animals, Greg Barrick.

An Australian man has described feeling “the shudders” as more than 100 venomous red-bellied black snakes were removed from a ...

Critically endangered monitor lizards which are rarely seen in the wild are now on public display for the first time at an Austrian zoo. These earless monitor lizards, which resemble miniature dragons ...

Intrigued, they took a closer look at the “distinct” reptiles and quickly realized they’d discovered a new species: Acanthosaura cuongi, or Cuong’s horned tree lizard. An Acanthosaura ...