They probably hid from feathered dinosaurs, only to end up stuck in redwood sap. The specimens come from Myanmar’s Kachin state and are thought to have lived in tropical forest. Each is embedded in ...

Australian geckos are remarkably adaptable reptiles, thriving across diverse environments due to unique traits like adhesive ...

The Corning reptiles and more event had more than 100 vendors on Oct. 19. They showcased snakes, geckos, turtles and more at ...

National Reptile Awareness Day is celebrated annually on October 21 to foster appreciation for these often-misunderstood cold ...

After more than 30 years of being missing, the Blyde Rondavel flat gecko (Afroedura rondavelica) reappears in South Africa.

If you’re more of a reptile person but large snakes and lizards intimidate you, why not adopt a small lizard to keep you company? Palm-sized reptiles such as the leopard gecko and fire skink are only ...

The Chilean marked geckos that call Chile’s Atacama Desert home have proved annoyingly difficult to classify. While one might ...

Two hundred and thirty-five million years ago, giant reptiles roamed the earth. After 169 million years or so, they became extinct. Their name, dinosaur, is taken from the ancient Greek words "deinos" ...

The creature is small, somewhat furtive and green. Sometimes it’s brown. It has a voracious appetite for insects and spiders but is completely harmless to people. It clings to walls and screens and ...

MADAGASCAR is perhaps best known to most people as the setting of the eponymous animated film. But the isolated island in the Indian Ocean, near the southern tip of Africa, has long been famous among ...

Seven years ago my husband Richard and I took up teaching posts at Simba International School, Ndola, Zambia. We were sick to death of the way in which the powers that be were tilting at the windmills ...