Woman killed and eaten by a Reticulated Python
Reticulated Pythons, Malayopython reticulatus, are the longest snakes on the planet.…
Oldest known lizard
A team of international scientists, including paleontologists from Bristol University,…
Indian Egg-eating Snake – is not related to African Egg-Eating snakes
Two genera of colubroid snakes are known to swallow eggs…
China’s Giant Salamanders are gone from the wild
The Chinese Giant Salamander, Andrias davidianus (Blanchard, 1871), is the…
Calling all hunters: Everglades National Park wants you to kill its Burmese pythons
The following story is from the Miami Herald. BY JENNY…
An intentional release of Ball Pythons in Georgia
Releasing potentially invasive snakes into North American ecosystems is apparently…
Maternal behavior in the South African python, Python natalensis
A brooding North African Python, Python sebae. This species is…
The second species of Malayopython, Malayopython timoriensis (Peters, 1876)
The Reticulated Python is the well—known member of the genus…
Sun-basking, a necessity not a leisure: Anthropogenic driven disturbance, changing the basking pattern of the vulnerable Indian rock python in Keoladeo National Park, India (Abstract)
Basking’ is the most conspicuous thermoregulatory behavior in many animals…
Parasite spillover: indirect effects of invasive Burmese pythons (ABSTRACT)
Identification of the origin of parasites of nonindigenous species (NIS)…
Boldness correlates with the mating success in varanid lizards
Yellow Spotted Monitor (Varanus panoptes) Photo by Greg Hume Boldness correlates with…
An extinct monitor lizard that had pineal and parapineal organs
This image depicts a reconstruction of what the extinct monitor…
Rattlesnakes as seed dispersal agents
Despite the bad rap snakes often get, they are more…
An update on crustacean-eating snakes
Read the discussion of snakes’ handling prey and invariably the…
THE KING COBRA ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION PROJECT
The Agumbe Rainforest Research Station (ARRS) is currently recruiting volunteers…
Recent advances in the knowledge of snake reproduction
The discovery that snakes have an XY chromosome system For…
Patterns of diversity in Neotropical Sankes
Neotropical region and ecoregion limits adopted here (sensu Olson et…
An almost a complete list of new reptiles described in 2017 – 96 new species
Extant Turtles described in 2017 (n=1) FAMILY Trachemys medemi Vargas-Ramírez,…
An almost complete list of the amphibians described in 2017 – 144 species
The following list is based upon data from AmphibiaWeb. This…
A new species of blind snake lizard
Dibamus floweri. Photo Credit Evan Quah. The lizards of the…
How do goannas find sea turtle nests?
Yellow-spotted goanna on Wreck Rock Beach, Queensland. Photo Credit: David…
Twenty-six new species of Malagasy microhylid frogs – many are microendemics
Stumpffia davidattenboroughi. Photo credit G. M. Rosa The genus Stumpffia Boettger,…
Viviparous sea snakes in the Indian Ocean
Hydrophis curtus The presence of the viviparous sea snakes in…
