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Researchers claim that microbes can and do live inside the venom glands of dangerous species. Read more info about this topic using the following link ...

The molecule produced by the jararacussu pit viper inhibited the virus's ability to multiply in monkey cells by 75%. "We were able to show this component o...

Madagascar doesn’t have any toads, salamanders or newts, but it is home to hundreds of different species of endemic frogs. Scientists discovered many new s...

The duration of long-term sperm storage of approximately 71 months is the longest registered period for a female vertebrate (in fact a reptile). Here, the ...

Glassfrogs make themselves transparent while they rest by taking red blood cells from circulation and concealing them in their livers. The northern glas...

The new lizard species, Proctoporus titans sp. nov., was found in the southern portion of the Otishi National Park in Peru by a team of four biologists. ...

What are the impacts of wildfire on the Sacramento Mountain salamander? These are some of the questions that Dr. Nancy Karraker and students in her lab at ...

The first discovery of fluorescent frogs was an accident. Someone had a black UV light, shone it on a frog and repeated the experiment. Read more info a...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission finally approved to adding the striped newt to the state’s threatened species list. Found primaril...

Adrian Macedo, a doctoral student at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, works with a northern cottonmouth snakes in the Cache River Basin this fall. ...

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is asking the public to report any observations of mudpuppies (aquatic salamanders) they may accidentally cat...

Many American turtle species are in trouble due to poaching as illegal trafficking poses serious conservation concerns for native America's turtles. "It...

The Center for Antibody Technologies headed by Professor Andreas Laustsen-Kiel (Technical University of Denmark) used high-throughput methods to systematic...

In a study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the researchers found that snakes have two individual clitoris (hemiclitores) separ...

New research into the embryo health of captive bred Southern Corroboree frogs may help their survival and guide conservation efforts. With its yellow an...

Songs of Disappearance, an album of frog calls, debuts at third behind Paul Kelly and Taylor Swift on the ARIA charts. An album featuring the croaks and ca...

Herpetologists have long wondered how the king cobra, which slithers across massive Asian landscapes separated by seemingly impenetrable divides such as th...

"On a recent trip to this island, I was fortunate enough to find and photograph many of these unique chameleons of Madagascar across a variety of habitats....

A final report produced by the Scottish Animal Welfare Commission on exotic pets in Scotland. Read more info about this topic using the following link ...

Chinese box turtle is known throughout herpetology and herpetoculture circles simply as “flavos,” which is an abbreviated version of their species name Cuo...

The Amphibian Survival Alliance (ASA) is looking for an ambitious new Executive Director to grow and develop the partnership, refine and implement the new ...

The Solomon Islands prehensile-tailed skink Corucia zebrata is the arboreal world’s largest skink. The reptile well known amongst the Indigenous people. Th...

Two decades after having described a new Anaconda species based on morphological characteristics, a team guided by David Tarknishvili succeeded in extracti...

Existe-t-il une communication sonore chez les reptiles? Une équipe internationale a mis en évidence des échanges sonores chez 50 espèces de tortues. Rea...

A pathogenic fungus has been decimating populations around the world for about forty years. That's why researchers have been stunned to see one genus—Atelo...

A half-dozen subspecies of box turtles make their homes across much of the U.S., from Maine down to Florida and westward out to Colorado. With their bright...

The staff of Chester Zoo have succeeded in breeding of world's largest chameleon species—Parson’s chameleons (Calumma parsoni parsoni) for the first time i...

Do turtles talk? What about other lesser-known vertebrates such as tuataras, caecilians and lungfish? The answer is yes, according to a new paper in Nat...

An article written by Chris Montross of DarkHorse Herpetoculture. Read about adventures in searching for red ratsnakes in the foothill of western North C...

An accumulation of scientific research suggests that there’s a lot more to the social lives of reptiles on the example of skinks. “There’s more socially...