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The Gans’ egg-eating snake (Dasypeltis gansi), a non-venomous colubrid native to West Africa. This is a small snake, with females reaching about 40 inches ...

The olm, also known as the human fish, is an endangered species that has developed unique characteristics in response to its extreme living conditions. It can ...

The H’mong keelback snake is the 34th keelback snake known to science. The snake is named the H’mong keelback snake (Rhabdophis hmongorum) in hono...

Scientists have described a new-to-science snake species from Peru’s Otishi National Park and named it after the actor Harrison Ford for his conser...

Unisexual salamander Ambystoma appear to be the only creatures in the world that reproduce the way they do. These salamanders seem to have the bene...

Much of the saltwater crocodile's vocalisations use water, either by slapping body parts on the surface, or vibrating the body beneath the water s...

Caecilian mothers grow a fatty skin layer for their babies to tear off and eat. It offers not only nourishment for their offspring but also microbes. Th...

The Orinoco crocodile (Crocodylus intermedius) is a critically endangered species native to the Orinoco River basin in Colombia and Venezuela. It is on...

An international team of researchers has uncovered "unprecedented" snake venom resistance in an unexpected species—the legless amphibians known as caecilia...

Australia is once again upholding its notable reptile reputation as researchers discover a new venomous species of snake, the Desert Whip Snake. The dis...

The phenomenon the researchers were studying is called "social buffering," and it has been widely documented across the bird and mammal families — as well ...

Researchers have discovered a new species of frog in Peru, living high in the Andes Mountains. The frog, Osteocephalus vasquezi sp. nov. was found in th...

Four new species of sand dragon lizards have been discovered in South Australia, with the lizards named after the traditional languages of the country wher...

Tylototriton ngoclinhensis was discovered during a fieldwork expedition in May 2022. They were found on the forest floor near a body of water. Tylototri...

Microplastics in frogs are potential threats to healthy wetland ecosystems and the problem was found to be acute in Bangladesh, according to a new study. A...

Peoples using the FrogID app have helped reveal just how much the Eastern Dwarf Tree Frog (Litoria fallax) is establishing populations outside its native r...

Argentinian conservation scientists are fighting to protect the tiny Santa Fe frog, which is under threat as its habitat in one of the world's driest fores...

Flinders University researchers in Australia have discovered an extinct shingleback skink species that was rabout the size of a human arm and covered in sp...

Scientists from Instituto Peruano de Herpetologia and Florida International University have discovered a new species of treefrog: Scinax pyroinguinis. R...

A lizard called Delcourt’s giant gecko has long been one of herpetology’s biggest mysteries. Now, DNA from the specimen reveals that the Delcourt’s gian...

Researchers With the University of Newcastle and University of Adelaide as well as the Queensland Museum have described a new species of barred frog from N...

The researchers provide an updated diagnosis of the species, including the first genetic and osteological data, and confirm that the ornate long-tailed liz...

Researchers in Australia have discovered a new species of gecko with beautiful psychedelic eyes. The stunning lizards evaded detection for decades due to t...

Scientists have discovered a new species of parachute gecko in India, according to the study published in Nature. The wide-eyed, smiling reptiles were disc...

Garter snakes form friendships. By tracking 40 snakes over eight days, researchers found that the reptiles tended to return to the same groups. The rese...

Bundaberg scientists from the Burnett Mary Regional Group (BMRG) have discovered critically endangered white-throated snapping turtle in Baffle Creek for t...

The Tibetan hot-spring snake (Thermophis baileyi), keeps from freezing to death by hanging around the region’s geothermal pools, feasting on frogs and smal...

Moaning, whooping and hooting varieties are among the five species of burrowing frog found in the Perth Hills. The scientists hope to inspire more people t...

A new salamander species of the genus Bolitoglossa is here described from the cloud forests of the western slopes of the Cordillera Oriental of Colombia. ...

After five years of tracking it down in remote ranges, researchers have discovered a new species of gecko. The ocellated velvet gecko (Oedura monilis) is ...