A smooth-scaled creature pregnant with 12 babies slithered through a wetland in a forest in Vietnam — straight into a fishing net set by nearby residents. Creatures from the net were eventually handed ...

Deep on the sea floor around the Solomon Islands, a “pentagonal” creature buries itself in the muddy bottom. Vicki Garside via Unsplash Sitting in the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, ...

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As the tide recedes from the Bay of Rest, mud flats lined with mangrove trees are left exposed. It’s a dichotomy of environments as the seafloor shifts from an underwater habitat to part of the land.

A new species of mud snake was found after specimens were caught from a rubber plantation and a forest wetland in Vietnam. Photo by Nguyen SN, Le MV, Lathrop A, Vo T-D-H, Murphy RW, Che J from ...