Yep, an alligator rescued from the cool waters of a Hudson Valley creek is recovering and getting warmed up. The small male ...

The 42-year-old herpetologist from the United States, who is also a professor at the College of Life Sciences of Nanjing ...

Scientists are seeing signs of resistance to the infections that have been wiping out the world’s amphibian populations—and ...

Amanda Bamford, University of Manchester Emeritus Professor of Plant Sciences, has delivered the tenth Irene Manton ...

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 ...

This historic hatchling is the first of its species to hatch at any Association of Zoos and Aquariums accredited facility.

In a groundbreaking revelation, scientists have discovered that the world's longest venomous snake, long thought to be a single species, actually comprises four distinct species. This finding ...

A resident of Germany opened a package ordered from Shein and found a scorpion inside. The arachnid stung the woman, who was ...

A new snake species discovered in the Himalayas has been named after Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio to honour the actor and ...

IN the Philippines, the hunt for the King Cobra is on—not to kill or extinguish them—but to save the species from extinction. The world’s longest venomous snake—the King Cobra—is widely distributed in ...

For example, research was more often cited from journals like the American Fern Journal and Ichthyology & Herpetology than from Nature or Science. Publications with a larger footprint can offer ...