Guwahati: A new gecko species has been discovered in Assam's Dima Hasao district by Mizoram University researchers, state Forest and Climate Change Minister Jayanta Malla Baruah said on Thursday. In a social media post, he said that the new reptile…
A loggerhead turtle named Lara has swum about 2,700 kilometres from Cyprus to Tunisia in roughly 120 days, giving scientists a rare look at how the species crosses the Mediterranean. Researchers fitted the adult female with a satellite tag after she nested…
The herpetologist caught wind of a conjoined pair of baby turtles, named Flip and Flop, who were discovered by an elderly woman in her garden Leone tells PEOPLE about the process to surgically separate them and the unfortunate result of…
While traversing through the African wilderness and encountering a long olive or brown snake, one could not imagine that it would be the Black Mamba. The dramatic name of this snake species is unrelated to its appearance and would seem…
A python spotted slithering into an HDB estate in Choa Chu Kang on Thursday (Oct 29) morning has been safely captured. The footage shows the python, which is about two metres long, slithering outside the void deck of Block 606. The resident…
Researchers examined teeth and skulls of 99 extinct crocodylomorph species and 20 living crocodylian species to reconstruct their dietary ecology and identify characteristics that helped some groups persist through two mass extinctions. They discovered that one secret tocrocodylian longevity is their remarkably…
Taxonomists have described three new species of the camel cricket genus Paradiestrammena from Sarawak and Sabah, raising the genus to 16 species and providing a new identification key for males.
A group of villagers in Madhya Pradesh, India, got the shock of their lives when a python was found near a residential building having consumed another python, then proceeded to regurgitate it in front of a stunned crowd. The incident,…
Home - Environment - Scientists dropped just two brown anole lizards on each of several storm-swept Bahamian islands, and years later their descendants revealed something natural selection alone could not erase In May 2005, scientists released one male and one female brown anole…
Laramie, Wyo. - The City Parks Department and the University of Wyoming's Biodiversity Institute are collaborating to set minnow traps within Labonte Lake to collect Western Tiger Salamander larvae. Senior Project coordinator, Mason Lee, says they hope to find salamanders staying…
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