Sheep farmers in Australia could benefit as the monitor lizards serve as clean up crews eating dead animal matter. [...]
The snake, named Ronaldo, and initially thought to be male, has not been in contact with any other snakes for nine years. [...]
Since the introduction of the cane toad in the 1930s, the population of the northern quoll has dropped by 75 percent. [...]
The snake, Ovophis jenkinsi, is named after herpetologist Robert "Hank" William Garfield Jenkins who died in 2023. [...]
The nothosaur vertebra was found in New Zealand and may have lived during the beginning of the Age of the Dinosaurs. [...]
The crocodile tegu is not a well known species and is found in the Amazon Basin. [...]
This poorly drafted ordinance seeks to ban all “animals,” most “pets,” and also has limits for dogs, cats, and birds. [...]
"My whole goal in life is to leave a legacy for people to see how much I love these animals and how much I hope others do too.” [...]
Cnemaspis are a genus of day geckos from Asia. They are among the most diverse genera of geckos with more than 100 species. [...]
This marks the fourth time since 2017 that a human was consumed by a python in Indonesia. [...]
Plufger two years ago introduced a bill that would give oversight of the species to the oil industry and land owners. It has gone nowhere in the Hous [...]
In addition to its common name, massasauga rattlesnake, the venomous snake is also known as the swamp rattler, swamp massasauga, swamp rattlesnake, an [...]
The small snake is found in sandy and stony soils with some vegetation as well as areas disturbed and inhabited by humans. [...]
Researchers with the University of Helsinki have placed two rear-fanged, mildly venomous mock vipers from Southeast Asia into a new snake family calle [...]
The turtles collected from the wild nesting areas are reared at the zoo until they reach about 50 grams. [...]
The little lizard has been the subject of a tug of war between the USFWS, environmentalists and the oil and gas industry for several decades. [...]
The non-venomous snake is of the family Colubridae and was first named Ophites gammiei based on a single specimen collected in India. [...]
This marks the largest number of snakes released in a single event since the captive breeding program began in 2010. [...]
The reptile was first discovered in 2014. Its name means skink that ‘lives in the footprints of mighty glaciers.” [...]