If you’re thinking about welcoming a new scaly-skinned addition to your home, allow us to introduce you to the best types of reptiles you can keep as a pet. These air-breathing vertebrates include a ...

For snakes at supper, more is more. They’re nature’s binge eaters, capable of swallowing and digesting things so large it really appears to defy physics – but their time in between meals is equally ...

The discovery of a quartet of fossilized snakes, a never-before-seen species from the boa family that lived 38 million years ago, has provided paleontologists with a rare insight into reptilian social ...

Hundreds of new species were discovered in 2025, with over 850 new marine species documented and many more described by ...

Biological invasions are increasing globally and are a primary threat to native ecosystems. Declines in native biodiversity ...

PHOENIX — Fossils from the Petrified Forest National Park, in northern Arizona, revealed a new reptile species that thrived during the Triassic Period. Paleontologists and partners with the ...

A new species of small, venomous reptile, Microzemiotes sonselaensis, has been discovered in the Late Triassic Chinle Formation in northeastern Arizona. The findings, recently published in PeerJ Life ...