One of the world's deadliest snakes was discovered lurking inside a shipping container that had passed through a port in Essex.

A Nepali man who was bitten by a cobra snake bit it back and killed the reptile in a tit-for-tat attack, a newspaper said today.

Has he discovered a new type of snake?

More than 1,500 turtles have made a gradual escape from their farm in the United States.

'Dundee' actor and Irwin family take opposing sides, as once-endangered species prospers

It may be a curlew or a kakapo. It may be the baiji, or a bat. But no one knows for sure, now, what is the rarest creature on the planet.

The body of one of two Britons who went missing after setting out to canoe along a crocodile-infested river in India has been found by a search team.

Four Chinese men face deportation from Zimbabwe after they were arrested on charges of cruelty to tortoises, according to local media.

Out of America: The US loves movies about bizarre creatures wreaking havoc. Now it's got them for real

If you go down to the Florida Everglades today, you're in for a big surprise: in the past 12 years, 90 per cent of the wild mammals which once roamed freely through the National Park have gone.

A man tried to board a plane in Argentina with almost 250 poisonous snakes and endangered reptiles in his baggage, each meticulously labelled with its Latin name.

Australia’s saltwater crocodiles are notoriously fond of human flesh. But yesterday it was a lawnmower that took the fancy of Elvis, a 16-foot croc living in a reptile park north of Sydney.

Police have discovered 11 Nile crocodiles – five of them squeezed into a small shower – and an alligator at a house.

A man is in custody after being accused of biting a python in what police in California said was apparently an unprovoked attack on a friend's pet snake. The suspect, David Senk, 54, was arrested on suspicion of unlawfully maiming a reptile, Sacramento police said. The snake was badly injured and needed stitches after surgery to its wounds.