From the glacial fjords of Chilean Patagonia to the beaches and mountains of Baja California, Hispanic America, representing ...

As darkness settled over a forest of southern Vietnam, a “long”-limbed creature with “dagger-like spines” climbed into a ...

As night fell across a remote region of northern Australia, a “velvet” creature emerged from a pile of rocks. Its hard-to-reach habitat and camouflaged coloring helped it go largely unnoticed — until ...

A tyrannosaur that lived 70 million years ago in Alaska wasn't nearly as big as Tyrannosaurus rex, but it wasn't as small as ...

Hoskin found Scawfell Island sun skinks in rainforest areas with “granite rocks,” such as several leaf-filled “gullies.” He ...

Journey into prehistory as the article explores seven monstrous serpents that once ruled land and sea. From the colossal ...

To lump or to split? Deciding whether an animal is a species or subspecies profoundly influences our conservation priorities ...

More can be done to protect serpents here, which are an important part of the ecosystem, an expert said. Read more at ...

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 ...

Researchers recently described the new species alongside 34 others in a 306-page study that has shaken up what researchers understand about Caribbean lizards. The taxonomy of neotropical forest ...

A massive species of dinosaur has been identified by scientists, and it's thought that it lived around 95 million years ago in modern-day Africa. At a whopping 10-metres long, it is thought to be one ...

Desert lizards are facing a 'cost-of-living' squeeze as global temperatures continue to rise, a new study finds. For a lizard, the 'cost-of-living' is tightly linked to its body temperature ...