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Lecture on amphibian diversity of India as an amphibian Hotspot is planned on April 25, 2024. Speaker: S. D. Biju (Sathyabhama Das Biju) – Professor, Depar...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has reopened the public comment period on the agency’s proposal to list the northwestern (Actinemys marmorata) and southwes...

New research details how this Japanese water beetle eaten by frog and travels through the bowels of its predator to emerge out the other end, alive and unharm...

Some frogs scream at an ear-splitting volume for other animals, but its frequency is inaudible to humans, scientists have discovered. While out in the Amaz...

The rewilding of 50 captive-bred spotted softshell turtles has sparked hope for this reptile conservation among conservationists for the future of the...

A canopy dwelling specialist, Cyrtodactylus thalang (comes from the ancient name of Phuket Island, with Thalang meaning "cape") has a prehensile tail. ...

SSAR congratulates the following winners of the Roger Conant Grants-in-Herpetology Awards. Each receives an award in the amount of $500. Read...

The San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance and The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens announced April 15 that 70 critically endangered Mojave Desert tortoise (Gopherus...

The threatened California red-legged frog is finding a home in Napa County, thriving on the Wragg Ridge Preserve wetlands just south of Lake Berryessa. The f...

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More than 100 million years ago, the ancestors of the first snakes were small legless lizards that lived alongside other small, nondescript lizards in the ...

We are now entering the Sixth Great Extinction. This event, termed by scientists the Anthropocene Mass Extinction, is fueled entirely by humanity’s reckless an...

Researchers have discovered and described a new species of frog of the genus Odorrana in the Leigongshan National Nature Reserve in China. The frog joins 65 s...

Some caecilians feed their young on a combination of their own skin and a nutrient-rich milk-like liquid.An egg-laying amphibian found in Brazil nourishes ...

One of the recent studies has recommended that more effort be made to increase the captive populations of endangered Psychedelic Rock Gecko as part of cons...

An 800-metre stretch of Charlcombe Lane on the outskirts of the city of Bath will close from Monday for a maximum of six weeks to allow for one of the coun...

Known for eyelash-like scales above their eyes, this brilliantly colored eyelash viper is more diverse than scientists ever imagined. According to a study pu...

A newly discovered species of lizard in the mountainous forests of Peru has been named after Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson. The lizard dubbed Enyali...

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Researchers of Khamai Foundation and Liberty University have discovered a new species of coffee snake endemic to the cloud forests of northwestern Ecuador. Bi...

Meet Top 2023 of Species Discoveries. This year, researchers at the California Academy of Sciences described 153 new plant, animal and fungi species. Since 2...

A decades-long project shows how the giant tortoises are changing the island of Española.These reptiles are ecological architects. As they browse, poop and...

The author picked 10 until-now undiscovered species, and ranked them in order of how much he’d like them to stick around. Read more info about this...

Documentary makers have witnessed the Labord's chameleon (Furcifer labordi) putting on a spectacular display at the end of her life. Using time-lapse photogra...

Turtles being the anti-aging standard makes sense, considering their sluggish metabolisms. Researchers have also linked their sturdy shells to longer lives. A...

Twenty-four new species were recorded for the first time near Yalgoo, about 479 kilometres north-east of Perth, during a seven-day research expedition.Abou...

MSU researchers and a multi-institutional team of collaborators, including researchers at the University of Tennessee, Washington State University, Univers...

Last year, state lawmakers approved a law eliminating the commercial harvest of two species—western painted turtles and snapping turtles. So Minnesota’s tu...

For the stream-dwelling foothill yellow-legged frog, Rana boylii, chytrid Infections' (Bd) role in the species' changing abundance across its endemic range (Ca...

The researchers will work on solutions to mitigate Batrachochytrium Salamandrivorans disease spread among captive and wild amphibian populations.Researcher...

Lost tetrapod species are those that have not been observed in the wild for over ten years, despite searches to find them. The number of lost tetrapod specie...

Northeastern cities may not be the worst places to live for reptiles and amphibians in North America, according to a new citizen science analysis. "Overall, ...