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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. ...

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 ...

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...

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

The Lyon’s grassland striped skink, a reptile that is so elusive that it hasn’t been seen in 40 years, has been found in Queensland."The grassland striped ...

Researchers Gernot Vogel (University of Heidelberg), Tan Van Nguyen (Duy Tan University, Vietnam) and Patrick David (Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle) hav...

Join NHI for a virtual event with internationally-renowned herpetologist Dr. Harry Greene which will explore the role of natural history in finding our path f...

An international team led by Dr. Daniel Schwarz and Prof. Dr. Rainer Schoch of the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Germany, studi...

Thanks to recently collected samples, new "rock-climbers" gecko was described and named after its preferred habitat, the boulders surrounded by the last re...

Legless amphibians (Caecilians) are the first amphibians known to pass on their microbiomes to their offspring. When born, baby legless amphibians...

The Yarrow’s spiny lizard (Sceloporus jarrovii) is facing a greater threat of extinction due to climate change. As researchers show that half of th...

Male Eastern hellbender normally tends their young, but lately they’ve been devouring them instead. Eastern hellbenders once swam in at least 570 s...

The scientists’ study, published this week in the journal Animal Behaviour, may help conservationists protect the critically endangered Central American ri...