If you’re thinking about welcoming a new scaly-skinned addition to your home, allow us to introduce you to the best types of reptiles you can keep as a pet. These air-breathing vertebrates ...

About a fifth of reptile species - from the Galapagos tortoises to the Komodo dragon of the Indonesian islands, from West Africa's rhinoceros viper to India's gharial - are threatened with ...

Although you’re allowed to legally kill most species of rattlesnakes to “protect life and property,” the California Department of Fish and Wildlife said, you should try to make your environment less ...

The iconic Red List of Threatened Species, published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), identifies species at risk of extinction. A study in PLOS Biology publishing May ...

The unusual, long-necked reptile was discovered in what is now Petrified Forest National Park in northern Arizona.

In a new study, researchers found that 21 percent of more than 10,000 reptile species studied are at risk of extinction. Many of the top threats to reptiles also threaten most plants and animals.

Reptile enthusiasts were able to pet and hold exotic animals as well as other nature’s oddities, during the HERPS Exotic ...

A valiant lifeguard plucked a massive alligator snapping turtle from the waters of a Washington state park — then posed ...