Did you find it?” a researcher asked Pablo Sinovas, who believed he rediscovered the creature during a two-day jungle trek.

On an island in Papua New Guinea, a 3-foot-long creature with a black tongue made itself at home in a village garden — or it tried to, at least. Locals spotted the “smooth” animal and caught it. They ...

From the mines of Papua New Guinea to the water tanks of India, here are where researchers are finding new species.

As steam billows in a cloud, the writhing slab flattens out under these successive squeezes until it is a hundred-yard ribbon, as flexible as a snake’s tongue and as red. Rippling down the long ...

Lately I've been craving a new plant, so when I found out that IKEA is selling a 14-inch mother-in-law's tongue (also known as a snake plant) for just $15, I was amazed. With spring officially ...

Villagers on an island in Papua New Guinea found a 3-foot-long creature with a black tongue and helped scientists ... in a group of tree-dwelling snakes with a “poorly understood ...