Island reptiles are vanishing fast—but scientists are barely paying attention. Here's why that needs to change.

Currently there are an estimated nearly 9,000 reptiles in the world, while the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List has assessed all of the world’s described mammals, birds, ...

The Mary River turtle is an odd little reptile. Finger-like protrusions dangle from its chin, it breathes through gill-like organs in its genitals and vertical strands of algae sprout from its head, ...

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Timber rattlesnakes are much in the news lately given the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife plan to populate an island in the Quabbin Reservoir with them, but they are not they only reptile species ...

A new species of day gecko, Cnemaspis godagedarai, has been described in Sri Lanka, bringing the island’s number of endemic geckos in the genus Cnemaspis to 25. The new gecko, named after a national ...