In Papua New Guinea, on the eastern half of the ... carvings of all manner of creatures - from pigs and cassowaries to snakes and eagles. Yet it is the crocodile that truly embodies animist ...

The amethystine python, also known as the scrub python, is a nonvenomous snake found in Australia, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. Scrub pythons are the longest species of snake native to Australia, ...

A United Nations official says between 20 and 50 people have been killed in violence among illegal miners in Papua New Guinea ...

Pope Francis is honoring the Catholic Church of the peripheries in Papua New Guinea. He is heading to a remote part of the ...

Do snakes lay eggs? Yes ... to the coastal lands of southern and eastern Australia but also live in Papua New Guinea. They’re ...

Sea snakes and kraits are occasional visitors to New Zealand ... They are found abundantly in the reef systems around Papua New Guinea and New Caledonia, and their usual prey is eels. Another species, ...

The former Dutch colony, the resource-rich western part New Guinea Island ... a human rights lawyer focused on Papua, said by text message that using a snake in this way represented torture ...

UN official says 20-to-50 people have been killed in Papua New Guinea violence ...

Pope Francis traveled to the remote jungles of Papua New Guinea on Sunday to celebrate the Catholic Church on the peripheries ...

A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck Papua New Guinea on Thursday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said The quake was at a depth of 194 km (120.55 miles), GFZ said.

Samaritan Aviation operates in the rugged, isolated and often inaccessible regions of the South Pacific in Papua New Guinea. The dedicated team of ... is still a great deal of tribal fighting there); ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — UN official says 20-to-50 people have been killed in Papua New Guinea violence.