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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...

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 ...