Doctors tell us that the frenzied pace of the modern 24-hour lifestyle—in which we struggle to juggle work commitments with the demands of family and daily life—is damaging to our health. But while life in the slow lane ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 17, 2014
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Environmental scientists are working alongside park rangers to protect Christmas Island's remaining reptilian wildlife from extinction.
Ecology
Nov 17, 2014
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The first fossil of an amphibious ichthyosaur has been discovered in China by a team led by researchers at the University of California, Davis. The discovery is the first to link the dolphin-like ichthyosaur to its terrestrial ...
Archaeology
Nov 5, 2014
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You have likely been to a zoo at some point and visited their reptile house. A building where the climate control dial is stuck on the "wet sauna" setting, and filled with maniacal children competing to be the first to press ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 15, 2014
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New research has for the first time provided evidence that reptiles could be capable of social learning through imitation.
Plants & Animals
Sep 30, 2014
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A frog that does not croak, the largest living lizard, and a tortoise that can live up to 100 years are just some of the species staving off extinction thanks to the help of zoos, according to a new report.
Plants & Animals
Aug 29, 2014
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Have you ever wondered why we give birth to live young rather than lay eggs? Scientists have pondered this for a long time and answers have come from an unlikely source: some of Australia's lizards and snakes!
Plants & Animals
Aug 20, 2014
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A new way of using DNA analysis to find out what reptiles have been eating has revealed that the UK's rarest snake species may be under pressure because it needs very different kinds of food at different times in its life.
Plants & Animals
Aug 11, 2014
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In order for reptiles and mammals to successfully recolonise rehabilitated mine sites an improvement in coarse woody debris (CWD) use for restoration is needed, local research suggests.
Ecology
Aug 5, 2014
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More than 10,000 reptile species have been recorded into the Reptile Database, a web-based catalogue of all living reptile species and classification, making the reptile species among the most diverse vertebrate groups in ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 1, 2014
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