Did you know that one-fifth of the world’s reptiles are at risk of extinction? And amphibians are declining by about 4% every year, according to the United States Geological Survey. Experts say the No ...

It’s been 17 years since the bright yellow Panamanian golden frog ( Atelopus zeteki) hopped through its native habitat. But ...

University of Queensland researchers say Australia's reptiles are at risk of extinction because a little understood fungus is ...

When I was a child, I visited the village in India where my father grew up. As we strolled down dirt roads, he reminisced on his barefoot youth. I don’t remember much of what he said — I was too busy ...

A new study led by the University of Oxford has revealed that reptiles confined to islands are facing a double jeopardy. Despite being more likely to go extinct than mainland species, they remain ...

More than 30,000 teeth, bones and other fossils from a 249 million-year-old community of extinct marine reptiles, amphibians, bony fish and sharks have been discovered on the remote Arctic island of ...

A once-rare reptile is making a remarkable comeback in East Devon in the United Kingdom. Smooth snakes — secretive, non-venomous reptiles once pushed to the brink by ongoing habitat loss — are ...

Not so long ago, one Georgia species was in critical danger of extinction, but in 2022 for the ecosystem, The US Fish and Wildlife Service declared the gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus)to be no ...

Do the bones of all Nile crocodiles have the same number of growth marks as their age? And can such growth rings be counted to accurately gauge the age of these reptiles? Is this also an accurate ...