The major threat to this species is its hunting for illegal trade driven by the belief that the oil extracted from its tail is a cure for impotency an [...]
This proposal results from a venomous snake bite from a free-handler (someone who freely handles venomous snakes without proper tools and equipment.) [...]
The zoo has had 13 successful eyelash pit viper births since 1980, with the last being in 2014. [...]
While specimens were collected in 2002 and 2014 in evergreen forests of the country’s Paria Peninsula in northeastern Venezuela, it wasn’t until Octob [...]
The Shallotte Police Department got a call about a large snake near the Chili’s parking lot in Shallotte on November 5, and a Sgt. Baker recovered th [...]
While the cause of death has not been revealed, officials with St. Johns County believe that the turtle, which is not known to nest in the state, died [...]
This ban includes fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians, small mammals, and any animal that is not specifically exempted from the definition of “exotic an [...]
Biologists at the university will sample the DNA of both lizards and if they are proven to be different genetically, the Dixon’s whiptail might be eli [...]
The release is part of an efforts with the zoo’s Texas horned lizard conservation program, the texas Parks and Wildlife Department, and other zoo part [...]
The toad, Brachycephalus dacnis, is named in honor of the Projeto Dacnis private reserve that started supporting biodiversity research in 2010. [...]
Dinkelman went into anaphylactic shock as he is allergic to snake venom. [...]
Researchers Bruce C. Jayne, Ian C. Easterling and Ian A. Bartoszek published a study in the journal reptiles & Amphibians that measured the gape of th [...]
Anguiculus dicaprioi was collected from mud roads. They were observed basking and stayed motionless until they were captured. [...]
Giant geckos, Rhacodactylus leachianus, are the largest extant species of gecko in the world. Hailing from New Caledonia, giant geckos are well known [...]
The snake crawls on the human hand, the egg cradled in the palm, and then the snake just opens its mouth and swallows the egg whole [...]
Microzemiotes sonselaensis represents the third Late Triassic reptile species that possibly used envenomation in either feeding or defensive strategie [...]
The researchers have restricted Ophiophagus hannah s. str. to populations of the snake located in eastern Pakistan, northern and eastern India, centra [...]
The Pet Animal Care and Facilities Act (PACFA) Program under the Colorado Department of Agriculture has drafted new regulations and amendments. Change [...]
The newly named species, Lycodon neomaculatus sp. nov can be found throughout southern China as well as into Cambodia, eastern Myanmar (formerly Burma [...]
LXRYOGA is offering what it calls snake yoga, and is targeting its practice to those who are afraid of snakes. [...]
