If you’re thinking about welcoming a new scaly-skinned addition to your home, allow us to introduce you to the best types of reptiles you can keep as a pet. These air-breathing vertebrates include a ...

“Charismatic megafauna” describes many people’s favorite animals: blue whales, giant pandas, elephants, penguins, and other large beasts of the natural world. Many of these animals are hunted to ...

The reproductive biology of reptiles encompasses a wider range of strategies than is often assumed in general accounts of the ...

Nearly one fifth of all reptiles — turtles, snakes, lizards and crocodiles — are on a slippery slope toward extinction due to loss of habitat, overharvesting and other factors, a new report says. The ...

The discovery of a quartet of fossilized snakes, a never-before-seen species from the boa family that lived 38 million years ago, has provided paleontologists with a rare insight into reptilian social ...

AMES, Iowa – Scientists searching the most ancient corners of the genome of a reptile native to New Zealand found patterns that help explain how the genomes of all vertebrates took shape, according to ...

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