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The North Carolina Aquariums were excited to release more than 100 rehabilitated cold-stunned sea turtles during winter stranding events. Included in the 1...

Australian researchers have buried an enduring myth once and for all, showing snakes are certainly not deaf and can hear airborne sounds. They found the sn...

The Niagara County Industrial Development Agency announced an award of $17,000 toward the project through the Cataract Tourism Fund. Other funding was prov...

An impressive video has gone viral on the internet in the last days. In a new pioneering way, researchers were able to measure the population of green sea ...

A threatened species for nearly a decade, the narrow-headed garter snake is getting new life and help from scientists at the Phoenix Zoo. Tara Harris, d...

Scientists of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Illinois Department of Natural Resources are working in earnest to observe and document the Illinois c...

Using samples from NOAA Fisheries’ tissue library, scientists have sequenced the sea turtle genomes of endangered leatherback and green sea turtles. "Se...

Field Guide to the Reptiles of the Northern Territory is the first regional guide to the crocodiles, turtles, lizards and snakes of this megadiverse region...

In an effort to learn more about the distribution of hellbenders and mudpuppies, the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources has launched a citizen sci...

An endangered yakka skink is getting a helping hand deep in the heart of the mulga lands, just outside Charleville in south-west Queensland. Predator fe...

Six Critically Endangered Madagascar big-headed turtles (Erymnochelys madagascariensis), have hatched at Durrell’s Jersey Zoo for the first time. The ju...

Once-in-a-lifetime photo captures butterfly drinking turtle tears. The turtle's tears contain salt, specifically sodium, an important mineral that is scant...

The Fernandina Giant Tortoise disappeared more than 100 years ago. The first time a confirmed sighting of this species was registered was in 1906. No confi...

Reptile expert Roger Hill, owner of The Snake Pit, has run his retail and educational business for 30 years. "We weren’t interested in sports. We were i...

Snake Discovery—a reptile adoption program, run through Maplewood, Minnesota store. Read more info about this topic using the following link ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCBD) – Riverbanks Zoo and Garden in Columbia will debut its new aquarium and reptile center this spring. The much-anticipated Darnall W...

In many places, busy roads lie between newts and their breeding grounds. In Petaluma and other parts of the San Francisco Bay Area, thousands of newts are ...

According to a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the genetic building blocks behind the production of oral venom in ...

The study, recently published in Evolutionary Biology, documents rapid evolution in tiger snake (Notechis scutatus). In less than a century, these snakes e...

Aotearoa New Zealand is home to an incredible diversity of lizards (mokomoko) - more than 120 species are identified, and counting. Northern and souther...

Turtles aren’t known for their parental instincts, but the arrau is an exception. The discovery is spurring a race to save the chatty species. Known loc...

The unusual adaptation of glass frog to bolster its camouflage could offer clues for preventing deadly blood clots in people. In a study published in t...

The wood frogs were hibernating in a box outside Brian Barnes’ Fairbanks home a few decades ago. Barnes, director of the Institute of Arctic Biology, and h...

New footage shows hundreds of thousands of baby giant South American river turtles hatching. The turtles began hatching in mid-December and continued into ...

This region’s rich biodiversity in the Southern part of Appalachian mountains isn’t well known, but we should be shouting it from the mountaintops. ...

The juvenile loggerhead turtle named Ruth can come back to the ocean this September, after 7 months being treated for hypothermia. In February, rescuers...

River restoration brings huge benefits for local reptiles and amphibians. Researchers have determined the effects that differences in water flow had on re...

Scientists discover new species of dwarf boa (Tropidophis cacuangoae) in Ecuadorian Amazon. Two specimens were found in the Colonso Chalupas national re...

The San Antonio Zoo's Reptile House gained several new additions this year, including 11 psychedelic rock geckos bred by the zoo's Ectotherms Team, accordi...

Leonardo DiCaprio’s frog—The longnose harlequin frog, extinct since 1980s and rediscovered in 2016, has since become a symbol of action against mining Inta...