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The popularity of such beautiful creatures as poisonous frogs made them very attractive to the hobby, and as such, they are nowadays among the best known f...

Officials with Zoo Atlanta say 11 endangered and rarest lizard species—Guatemalan beaded lizards hatched recently and arrived at a zoo back in their native...

The Phoenix Herpetological Sanctuary (PHS) announced that will house six Gharials (Gavialis gangeticus) and six mugger crocodiles (Crocodylus palustris...

Around 60 New Zealand skinks that are widely distributed across the country and some have only been discovered in the last decade. Read more info about...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has prohibited the western painted turtles and snapping turtles harvesting in state, the agency said in a new...

 Rare Galápagos land iguana hatched from eggs in artificial conditions, according to iZoo Japan.  The zoo obtained two adult iguanas in 2017 and ...

Brazilian spider and snake venom continue to be a source of new discoveries with biotechnological potential. Two recently published studies show how this i...

Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Trust aims to secure the future of the northern pool frog, a recently reintroduced species and Britain's rarest amphibian, ...

The Hochstetter's frog is endemic to New Zealand's upper North Island and differs from most other frogs. Of New Zealand's three endemic frog species, the Hoc...

Tadpole of Gastrophryne elegans (Boulenger, 1882) from the rainforest of Los Tuxtlas, described for the first time. The region of Los Tuxtlas, Ve...

The diminutive Karoo dwarf tortoise may play a key role in seed dispersal of plant species in its semidesert habitat in South Africa, a new study finds. ...

What is "herping"? This term used for seeking out and observing reptiles and amphibians in their natural habitat. Read more info about this topic using ...

The marsupial frog, which incubates its young in a pouch on its back, was thought to be extinct in some countries. The word "marsupial" typically evokes a ka...

New species of pit viper—Trimeresurus ayeyarwadyensis was found to occur in the Yangon region's Hlawga Park and Pyapon and Myaungmya districts of Myanmar.B...

Young gators can sprout new tails that can reach up to nine inches, helping them survive through their juvenile years. Read more info about t...

Australian freshwater turtles support healthy wetlands and rivers. Yet one in three turtle species is threatened with extinction. And there is still much w...

Garter snakes have something in common with elephants, orcas, and naked mole rats: they form social groups that center around females. The snakes also t...

A study using saltwater crocodile DNA has shone a new light on how the apex predators are migrating along coastlines of the Northern Territory. Scientists ...

 Ecologist Karen Lips talks about mysterious deaths have occurred all over the planet and followed a similar pattern. Why have so many species vanished? ...

The release of a significant number of Endangered harlequin frogs that are highly susceptible to the chytrid fungus prompted some concerns that there may b...

The draft recovery plan for the Louisiana pinesnake is now available as The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s remove it from the Federal List of Endangered and...

The leucistic white gator is one of only eight in the world, the Gatorland park said. She was born to parents Jeyan and Ashley. Read more inf...

Conservationist and photographer Scott Trageser has developed a 3D scanning system that could potentially reshape how animals are studied in the wild for c...

The American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (ASIH) has honored biologist Maureen Donnelly with the Henry S. Fitch Award for Excellence in Her...

Nile crocodile is uniquely sensitive to the wails of distressed primate babies, according to a new study—and the more anxious the cry, the more interested ...

Researchers have discovered that female Taricha newts possess significantly higher levels of tetrodotoxin, a potent neurotoxin, than their male counterpart...

Germany's reptile of the year for 2024 is the common European adder (Vipera berus), scientists said in a press release.The German Association for Herpetolo...

Australian researchers are well on their way to saving more than one million turtles through the creation of an app TurtleSAT which collects data from citi...

The campaign, called "Adoptaxolotl," asks people for as little as 600 pesos (about $35) to virtually adopt an axolotl—one of the tiny "water monsters." Vir...

More than 3,000 yellow-spotted river turtle (Podocnemis unifilis) hatchlings were released into the local environment of San Jose de Lupuna, Peru. The Amazon ...

The Future Leaders of Amphibian Conservation Program aims to support those who wish to conduct or continue initiatives that directly or indirectly impact t...

According to Animal Diversity Web, earless monitor lizards' unusual appearance led scientists to think they were a missing link between snakes and lizards,...