Off the coast of the picturesque Bahama islands, a slimy creature scours the seafloor for the scent of death. iSAW Company via Unsplash In an era of exploration and discovery, some creatures may be ...

His academic passions lie in biogeography, evolutionary biology, and herpetology. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. from the Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science ...

Herpetology is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians (including frogs, toads, salamanders, newts and the gymnophiona) and reptiles (including snakes, lizards, amphisbaenids ...

It’s uncommon to find a glass lizard with the original tail still intact, said Jeff Beane, the collections manager for herpetology at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. The Eastern ...

In a recent study published in the journal Cell Reports Medicine, a team of researchers in China used an in vitro co-culture of adipocytes, cardiomyocytes, and sympathetic neurons to examine the ...

In the dark, frigid months of winter, painted turtle hatchlings hunker down in shallow, icy nests where they enter a state of suspended animation. 1 Their hearts stop beating; their metabolisms slow ...

according to an article published online April 19 in the journal Herpetology Notes. In the article, co-authors Pérez-Fleitas and Gustavo Sosa-Rodriguez described evidence that feral cats were ...

Many traits of a type A personality lead to success in careers. You speak to people directly and say what you feel. You make decisions easily and work hard to get things done and done right. You ...

In this study, we introduce a reliable noninvasive molecular technique that enables us to detect Bd in formalin-preserved amphibian specimens. Furthermore, we use this technique to examine amphibian ...

MISSOURI, USA — As people prepare for this year's cicada emergence in Missouri, recent viral posts have some worried they should also be preparing for a coinciding snake emergence. The numerous ...

The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) announced Monday that it will close a federal women's prison in California where sexual abuse was so common that it was known as the "rape club." The Associated ...