Some recent restaurant inspections throughout Northern Virginia and Fredericksburg uncovered a dead lizard, dead rodents, ...

Over 100 invasive lizards the size of dogs have been reported throughout South Carolina and are destroying the local ecosystem, including killing endangered species. The Argentine black and white ...

Komodo dragons have sharp, curved teeth that can tear flesh. They also have a venom gland in their lower jaw that prevents blood from clotting ...

Q. Why are there so many lizards this year? I’ve never seen so many before! It’s possible that you are seeing more lizards because their normal hiding places have been disturbed. For instance ...

Reptiles have dry, scaly skin like this snake. Reptiles look a lot like dinosaurs. In fact, dinosaurs were reptiles. Not all reptiles have four legs and look like a dinosaur. Some have no legs ...

2, 2024 — An extensive exploration of ten years of wildlife rescue data reveals the complex interactions between humans and reptiles in Sydney's urban ... Sep. 24, 2024 — The Eiffinger's tree ...

The new store has shipped more than 16,000 tarantulas around the United States in the first half of the year alone, said ...

Prior to this, evidence for venom use in reptiles from the Late Triassic was limited to isolated teeth from the genus Uatchitodon. Helen Burch, the study's lead author and PhD student at Virginia ...

The venomous reptile Microzemiotes sonselaensis was discovered in Arizona's Late Triassic, shedding light on reptile venom evolution and ancient ecosystems. A newly discovered species of small, ...

Helen Burch, the study's lead author and Ph.D. student at Virginia Tech, notes that this discovery adds to the growing body of evidence for venom use among Mesozoic reptiles. "We know very little ...

Endangered green sea turtles lay eggs on Loosiep island in the Federated States of Micronesia, but nests have been heavily predated on by pigs, rats and lizards. A community-led project aims to ...

Herpetology is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians (including frogs, toads, salamanders, newts and the gymnophiona) and reptiles (including snakes, lizards, amphisbaenids ...