Successful Skinks
Geckos and skinks are lizard lineages that have been remarkably…
The Plateau Spot-tailed Earless Lizard – no longer listed as endangered
SAN ANGELO, Texas (Concho Valley Homepage) — A lizard species…
Hunting the HUNTERS
The following article appeared in the Florida Weekly Bonita Springs…
Loss of Biodiversity in Singapore
Planning for conservation requires accurate estimates of tropical extinction rates…
The California Kingsnake: An Invasive Threat in the Canary Islands
Information on the biology and ecology of invasive predators can…
Amphibians on the Edge: Climate Change and Other Threats to Survival
In the world of biodiversity, Earth’s amphibians play a crucial…
Diets and Niches for Four Sceloporus Species in the Chiricahua Sky Islands
Niche partitioning is a concept at the heart of understanding…
Natural History collections are more important now than they were 10 years ago.
Our knowledge of the biodiversity of Asia and Australasia continues…
Discovering the lightbulb lizards of Ecuador
Alejandro Arteaga, a herpetologist in Ecuador sent out out the…
Ontogenetic shift in the venom composition of the Mexican Black-tailed Rattlesnake
We detected clear ontogenetic venom variation in C. m. nigrescens.…
A new genus and species of snake from the Lost World (Guyana)
The Pantepui is a remote, biodiverse region made famous by…
Frogs are younger than previously thought
In evolutionary and ecological research across various organisms, the utilization…
3FTx in four species of colubrid snakes
By conducting gene tree reconstructions of 3FTxs, the researchers uncovered…
Social Western Diamondbacks
Social behavior in snakes is under-studied and, as a result,…
Time to first shed
An intriguing example is the puff adder (Bitis arietans), which…
Cryptid Rhabdophis in the nuchalis group
Cryptic diversity has been underestimated, but many examples have been…
Rediscovery of a rare, aquatic Philippine Snake
The single-occurrence records of O. alcalai demonstrate the significance of…
An endemic, highly aquatic homalopsid snake from Sulawesi
A recent paper (Hamidy et al 2023) describes a new…
Snake genome reveals burrowing past and re-adaptation to surface life
The Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, has led a study…
A Giant Armoured Skink from Australia’s Pleistocene
Tiliqua frangens is believed to be related to the living…
A new parachuting gecko from northeast India
Lalremsanga and colleagues (2023) describes a newly discovered genus Gekko…
A new species of Hynobius Salamander from China
There are currently six described species on the Chinese mainland…
Venom in the Blunt-headed Treesnakes
Biological specialization refers to the process by which organisms adapt…
The Kingsnake and the Rattlesnake – predator and prey
The feeding behavior of kingsnakes preying on rattlesnakes is a…
Modeling reptile distributions suggests climate change will exacerbate extinctions
The impact of future climate change on global reptile diversity…
