On Sudest Island in southern Papua New Guinea, a creature covered in ticks moved across the rainforest floor. Its slithering body, more than a foot long, was snatched up by a research assistant in ...

Scientists have made an exciting discovery on Misima Island in Papua New Guinea, identifying a previously unknown species of ...

Measuring as long as 4 feet, 8 inches, the Dendrelaphis anthracina, or coal black tree snake, was identified by scientist Fred Kraus while visiting Sudest Island (also called Vanatinai and Tagula ...

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

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 ...