Snout pressed to the ground, a border collie named Delta zigzagged through the shrubs on a private nature reserve near Cape ...

Cave art created by the San, the indigenous hunter-gatherers of South Africa’s Karoo region, may have been inspired by ...

Keeping of reptiles is pretty big in South Africa, there is a huge market for dwarf adders and many of the smaller venomous snakes. In all but one province, ...

South Africa’s reptiles probably fare better than those in some other parts of the world because there are many active conservation measures in place and a fair amount (9% or 108,000 km²) of ...

It took seven editors and 26 authors nine years to compile the first ever Reptile Atlas for all reptiles found in the southern tip of Africa. This huge collaborative effort resulted in the 485 ...

In South Africa, for example, there are 11 official spoken languages and scientists use Latin names for species. Most people aren’t familiar with the scientific names.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A large shipment of reptiles smuggled from Madagascar and destined for the exotic pet trade in the United States were confiscated in South Africa, said animal protection ...

A fossilised colony of small burrowing reptiles that lived some 250 million years ago was recently found in South Africa. It’s the first time that the Procolophon trigoniceps, which lived in the ...

South Africa's reptiles probably fare better than those in some other parts of the world because there are many active conservation measures in place and a fair amount (9% or 108,000 km²) of ...

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That's why we extended the list of scientific, Afrikaans and English names of South African frogs and reptiles to include names in the country's other nine official languages.