Rocks have been found to hold many traces of Earth's ancient history, but usually geologists have to seek them out. Every once in a while, however, these imprints of times past are found by unsuspecting visitors. This occurred ...
If someone mentions criminal gangs, you might think of drug trafficking or financial crime. But one of the most persistent illegal trades in the world flies largely under the radar: wildlife smuggling.
A growing exotic pet trade has conservationists calling for stronger regulations to protect the reptiles, birds and other animals in the wild that are increasingly showing up for sale on internet marketplaces and becoming ...
For some people, the mention of voodoo evokes something like a scene from the James Bond novel "Live and Let Die," featuring occult ceremonies with snakes and animal sacrifice. Animal sacrifice was widespread among human ...
In most narratives, the story of evolution is the story of organisms emerging from the ocean and eventually populating the land. But for some species, that evolution also involved a return trip. Dozens of major mammal and ...
We know—and love—the Turtle Rescue Team here at The Abstract. But their work isn't just limited to our shelled friends: snakes are sometimes visitors to the TRT as well. In a recent study published in the Journal of Zoo and ...
More than 30,000 teeth, bones and other fossils from a 249 million-year-old community of extinct marine reptiles, amphibians, bony fish and sharks have been discovered on the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen. These record ...
An extinct snake has slithered its way out of obscurity over four decades after its discovery. The newly described species of reptile, Paradoxophidion richardoweni, is offering new clues in the search for the origin of "advanced" ...
A new study led by the University of Oxford has revealed that reptiles confined to islands are facing a double jeopardy. Despite being more likely to go extinct than mainland species, they remain largely ignored by researchers ...
Climate change is driving many of Australia's native reptiles toward extinction, and the answers to their future survival may lie in the fossil record.
