How many species of king cobras are there?
The King Cobra is thought of as a single wide…
The western edge of Ornate Box Turtle’s distribution in Arizona
The Ornate Box Turtle is at the western edge of…
The ancestor for the Squamata + Rhynchocephalia
A new fossil suggests it may be the ancestor to…
What is the world’s smallest advanced snake?
The Barbados Threadsnake, (Tetracheilostoma carlae), is considered the world’s smallest…
Hot snakes at hot springs
Hot-spring snakes of the genus Thermophis are unique – they…
Proximity between Russell’s Viper and People in Rural India
Russells Viper, Bannerghatta, India. Saleem Hameed <saleemham at rediffmail.com>, CC…
The Little File Snake, Acrochordus granulatus
The unusual biology of the Little File Snake
Movement ecology of the Chinese Giant Salamander
In a recently published paper Wang et…
Reptile extinctions in the Guadeloupe Islands
The sixth extinction – that is the present global biodiversity…
Loss of amphibians increases malaria
Central American amphibians, like this Lemur Frog, Agalychnis lemur, are…
Three poorly known cryptozoic, neotropical snakes, Xenopholis
The Neotropical herpetofauna is likely the world’s most diverse and…
Evolution of viviparity in arboreal lizards
Since Robert Mertens described Harpesaurus borneensis in 1924, it has…
Greater sea snake forages on a falling tide
(a) Greater sea snake, Hydrophis major; (b) swarm of striped…
The Komodo Dragon and Climate Change
The Komodo Dragon, Varanus komodoensis, is the world’s largest lizard,…
New, novel feeding behavior in a Kukri Snake
Read any herpetology book on snake feeding behavior and they…
Cat-eyed Snakes – Systematics & Biogeography
The White-spotted Cat Snake, Boiga drapiezii, a Sundaland species that…
New monitor lizards from the western Pacific and a conservation problem
Above: a subadult Varanus bennetti, a newly described species from…
The Variegated Banded Gecko – composed of six clades
Laurence Klauber writing about banded geckos in 1945 notes that…
Boa vertebrae from Caribbean Archeological sites
Today snakes of the genus Boa have a patchy distribution…
The enigmatic snake genus Xenophidion, confirmation of two species
In the early 1980’s, while working on the Trinidad and…
