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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...

An amateur herpetologist says many of the lizards in New Zealand are so new to science that they don’t even have names. “Historically, New Zealand has b...

Photo by Thomas Reich New difficulties were found connected with reintroducing of Tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus) back onto the mainland. As the New Zealan...

Photo by Thomas Reich After conservationists have dug hundreds of new artificial ponds in Aargau (Switzerland), amphibian numbers have increased significant...

The new polka-dotted frog (Hyloscirtus sethmacfarlanei) has been found in Ecuador. and named in honor of Seth MacFarlane, creator of “Family Guy”. The a...

The United States Association of Reptile Keepers (Florida) advocates responsible captive breeding of Diamondback terrapins (M. terrapin). “So we’re talk...

The global fungal pandemic wiped out amphibians, destroyed biodiversity, and ultimately increased human illness and now a similar pathogen is on the way. ...

Scientists have found a relationship between the amphibian apocalypse (loss of Central American frogs to the Bd fungus) to a temporary rise in malaria rate...

Researchers with the National Museum of Natural History have discovered a relative to New Zealand’s tuatara that lived more than 150 million years ago. Opi...

A report on an epic herpetological trip of two world-famous herpers Luis Albero Martinez and Max Benito in search for "big five" herp species of Morocc...

The newly discovered tiny Tapir Valley tree frog (Tlalocohyla celeste) was found on a private nature reserve and may already be critically endangered. Scie...

At the start of every summer, the western pond turtles (Actinemys marmorata) are collected as eggs from wild nests and transported to Woodland Park Zoo, wh...

Australian bearded dragon (Pogona vitticeps) providing important insights into vertebrate brain evolution, as revealed by the work of Max Planck scientists...

The 10,000th hellbenders (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis bishopi) captive bred in Saint Louis Zoo, were released into an Ozark river. Read more info about...

Different water evaporation intensivity between scaleless bearded dragons and normally scaled reptiles was discovered by scientists on the example of beard...

Top-10 animals (amphibians and reptiles among them) that play dead survive the unnecessary predators' attention. Read more info about this topic using t...

A new frog species, rugose forest frog (Gephyromantis marokoroko), discovered in Madagascar is already endangered because of the loss of suitable habitat. ...

ZIMS at Work feature on Cologne Zoo is a story about Read more info about this topic using the following link Read also: Zoo Atlanta Helps in Con...

A new species of Caudata representatives, namely Yangsan clawed salamander (Onychodactylus sillanus) was described from the extreme southeast of the Korean...

Six new species of frogs, that are so tiny (< 15 mm) that they can easily be placed on a coin, have been discovered in the forests of Mexico. "These ...

Charles Darwin was the last person to make a record of Land Iguanas on Santiago Island in 1835. Because of the time that passed and because iguanas are an ...

It was found that after a month living in mesocosms, the skin microbiome of frogs (Atelopus limosus) had rapidly changed to resemble the wild one. Read ...