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Turtles aren’t known for their parental instincts, but the arrau is an exception. The discovery is spurring a race to save the chatty species. Known loc...

The unusual adaptation of glass frog to bolster its camouflage could offer clues for preventing deadly blood clots in people. In a study published in t...

The wood frogs were hibernating in a box outside Brian Barnes’ Fairbanks home a few decades ago. Barnes, director of the Institute of Arctic Biology, and h...

Scientists discover new species of dwarf boa (Tropidophis cacuangoae) in Ecuadorian Amazon. Two specimens were found in the Colonso Chalupas national re...

Researchers claim that microbes can and do live inside the venom glands of dangerous species. Read more info about this topic using the following link ...

The molecule produced by the jararacussu pit viper inhibited the virus's ability to multiply in monkey cells by 75%. "We were able to show this component o...

Madagascar doesn’t have any toads, salamanders or newts, but it is home to hundreds of different species of endemic frogs. Scientists discovered many new s...

The duration of long-term sperm storage of approximately 71 months is the longest registered period for a female vertebrate (in fact a reptile). Here, the ...

Glassfrogs make themselves transparent while they rest by taking red blood cells from circulation and concealing them in their livers. The northern glas...

The new lizard species, Proctoporus titans sp. nov., was found in the southern portion of the Otishi National Park in Peru by a team of four biologists. ...

What are the impacts of wildfire on the Sacramento Mountain salamander? These are some of the questions that Dr. Nancy Karraker and students in her lab at ...

The first discovery of fluorescent frogs was an accident. Someone had a black UV light, shone it on a frog and repeated the experiment. Read more info a...

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is asking the public to report any observations of mudpuppies (aquatic salamanders) they may accidentally cat...

The Center for Antibody Technologies headed by Professor Andreas Laustsen-Kiel (Technical University of Denmark) used high-throughput methods to systematic...

In a study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the researchers found that snakes have two individual clitoris (hemiclitores) separ...

Herpetologists have long wondered how the king cobra, which slithers across massive Asian landscapes separated by seemingly impenetrable divides such as 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...

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 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...

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 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...

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

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

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