An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. For much of ...

Mosasaurs were enormous reptiles best known for ruling ancient oceans more than 66 million years ago, but new evidence suggests some also lived in rivers. Scientists reached this conclusion after ...

Celine Tails unboxes a custom enclosure for her leachie gecko and instantly feels like a reptile interior designer.

Scientists map how climate-driven extreme heat and human land use together push almost 8,000 vertebrate species toward extinction.

For decades, biologists assumed a single ‘turtle tick’ crawled across much of Asia. Now detailed DNA and microscope work show ...

Anacondas achieved their massive size millions of years ago. Discover how anacondas stayed huge while other giant reptiles died out!

Conservationists are hoping to strengthen regulations at a wildlife trade conference on birds, reptiles and other animals ...

This video follows the unboxing of several newly acquired snakes sourced from a major 2025 reptile expo in Daytona. Each ...

A surprising fossil find shows that some mosasaurs lived in ancient rivers as oceans changed near the end of the Cretaceous.

Reptiles and amphibians are sometimes thought of as primitive, dull, and dimwitted. In fact, of course, they can be lethally fast, spectacularly beautiful, surprisingly affectionate, and very ...

The sex of many turtles, crocodilians, and other reptiles is determined by the temperature at which their eggs incubate.

As a veterinary student interested in exotics – especially reptiles – you can imagine my surprise when we finally reached our exotics block at the end of second year, after hundreds of lectures on ...