A new species of snake was recently discovered after scientists spotted it taking on a hawk on a Papua New Guinea island.

Fred Kraus was the visiting scientist on a mission to explore the habitats of the tree-dwelling snakes of the region, but as ...

Herpetologist Fred Kraus discovered a new arboreal snake species, Dendrelaphis atra, on Misima Island in Papua New Guinea.

The atra tree snake, whose scientific name is Dendrelaphis atra, was found by Fred Kraus, a researcher from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, during his visit to Misima Island in the northwest ...

On a small island of Papua New Guinea, a 4-foot-long creature moved through the overgrown rainforest covering the site of an ...

He didn’t know it at the time, but he’d just discovered a new species. Fred Kraus visited Sudest Island as part of an ongoing project to document the region’s reptile diversity. He was particularly ...

They didn’t know it at the time, but they’d just discovered a new species. Biologist Fred Kraus visited Woodlark Island as part of an ongoing project to document the region’s reptile diversity. He was ...

He didn’t know it at the time, but he’d just discovered a new species. Fred Kraus visited Sudest Island as part of an ongoing project to document the region’s reptile diversity. He was ...

A visiting scientist noticed the scaly animal — and discovered a new species. Fred Kraus visited Rossel Island as part of an ongoing project to document the region’s reptile diversity.