The Chester Zoo in the United Kingdom last week posted video onto social media of the first Moellendorff's rat snakes (Orthriophis moellendorffi) the [...]
Zen Habitats 4’x 2’x 2’ Wood Panel Reptile Enclosure Review
I have been keeping herps since I was 10 years old. I explored the canals near my childhood home for introduced African clawed frogs and American bull [...]
How To Get Your Hognose Snake to Start Eating Again
Whether you’re a first-time reptile owner or an experienced keeper, one pet that can cause a lot of trouble is hognose snakes. These adorable snak [...]
Reptile Dentition: The Details on Reptile Teeth
Reptile Anatomy and Physiology is an important part of Herpetology and captive care! [...]
Snakes Resort To Inbreeding As Habitats Become Fragmented And Cut Off
A new paper out of Australia shows the dire consequences of habitat fragmentation and urbanization, as snakes that are cut off in their ecosystems ten [...]
Drink A Beer And Save A Pine Snake
If you are of legal drinking age and live in the Memphis, TN area, head on over to the Memphis Zoo and drink a beer to help the zoo’s conservation eff [...]
Oldest Known Snake In A Zoo Lays Eggs Without Aid Of Male Snake
A 50-year-old ball python (Python regius) living in the Saint Louis Zoo has laid eggs, but hasn’t been with a male ball python in more than 15 years, [...]
Nature Conservancy In Florida Releases 22 Eastern Indigo Snakes
The Drymarchon couperi were captive bred in Florida [...]
Narrow-Headed Garter Snake Gets 447 miles of Protected Stream Habitat
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced the protection of 447 miles of streams in Arizona and New Mexico for the narrow-headed garter snake ( [...]
Snake Fungal Disease Appeared In USA As Far Back As 1945, Study Says
A microbiologist with the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wisconsin, looked at more than 500 preserved snakes in [...]
Male Sea Snakes Pursue Scuba Divers In Mating Embrace
Male olive sea snakes (Aipysurus laevis) in Australia’s Great Barrier reef have been documented pursuing scuba divers in cases of mistaken identity to [...]
New Species Of Keelback Snake Discovered In India
Researchers have described a new species of snake of the genus Rhabdophis discovered in a forested region of Northeast India. The snake, Rhabdophis bi [...]
Video: Eastern Kingsnake Eats Timber Rattlesnake In Georgia
Johnson shared her video with the Wildlife Resources Division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. [...]
Escaped Rat Snake Found In Junk Drawer
The staff at the center looked high and low, to no avail until yesterday when the snake was found in the center's hardware drawer. [...]
Researchers Document Male Montpellier Snakes Eating Females
The Montpellier snake is a mildly venomous, rear-fanged snake. [...]
New Western Himalayas Snake Species Discovered Via Instagram Post
A master’s degree student at India’s Guru Nanak Dev University (Amritsar) spent much of 2020 uploading photos to Instagram of reptiles and amphibians [...]
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