The advantages of using snakes are clear. They'll do the work of a pesticide for free and with no risk of contaminating crops ...

The findings confirm that communal living among land-living reptiles happened further back in time than we thought ...

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 ...

A fossilized colony of small burrowing reptiles that lived some 250 million years ago was recently found in South Africa.

Four species of snakes found in Nebraska are venomous. None of those are found in the Omaha area. Yet, snake experts arrived in the metro this week to discuss new ...

Florida has dozens of nonnative lizard species that are bigger, faster and stronger than native species. They have teeth, and some have bad attitudes. Here’s a look at which ones can ...

Like Happy Gilmore, Harrison Brunicke has seen large reptiles on the golf course in South Africa. But unlike Happy, he’s ...

A statue of Russell’s Viper — a venomous snake that lives in south and southeast Asia ... The venom of Asian snakes is completely different to that of African snakes. And even across the African ...

New research from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa ... productivity across Africa. This also highlights the need to have snakes included in conservation management ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. South Africa’s native reptiles and amphibians, including threatened species, are being illegally captured and exported for the global pet trade.

Fortunate Phaka is a zoologist who has conducted the first comprehensive analysis of naming and classification of frogs and reptiles in nine South African cultures. The list includes 136 frog and ...