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The chance sighting of a dead snake beside a sandy track in remote Western Australia, and the investigation of its stomach contents, has led researchers to record the first known instance of a spotted ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Though cats and dogs may dominate the pet sphere worldwide, lizards, snakes and other reptiles still remain among the most popular ...

What happens when a species has not been seen by anyone for decades? Environmentalists think of these as "lost species." We do not know if they've gone extinct, or if it's simply that nobody has ...

A research team from the National Taiwan Normal University has clarified the status of a secretive reptile. Led by Si-Min Lin, the team focused on the Formosan legless lizard, scientifically known as ...

Aaron Bauer built his career on animals most people go out of their way to avoid. Now, after 38 years at Villanova University ...

The largest zoo in Georgia is working hard to help conserve one of the world's rarest lizard species. Zoo Atlanta sent 11 endangered Guatemalan beaded lizards (Heloderma charlesbogerti) to La Aurora ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service added three of Florida's rarest reptiles to its list of endangered species.

Man' lizard — a herpetologist explains how it flashes red and blue in seconds to win mates and settle rival showdowns.

The global fossil record of squamates, which includes lizards, mosasaurs, snakes, and amphisbaenians (A) is overwhelmingly incomplete, with most fossil species containing less than 20% of the totality ...

A serendipitous find in the National Museum of Natural History’s collections yielded just the second known specimen of a mysterious Cuban anole Benjamin Hack A CT scan reconstruction of USNM 5095 that ...