A lizard, a turtle and a fish are prospering in Kansas after spending years on the state’s threatened list. A Nov. 21 ...

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In a recent paper published in the journal Genome Research, experts described the chromatin arrangement in the genomes of two ...

New research finds that turtle genomes show a chromatin arrangement that hasn't been observed in other organisms.

For decades, rats, pigs, and monitor lizards have wreaked havoc on native species, including nesting turtles. So the ...

The scientists estimated kukri snakes consumed around 120 sea turtle eggs each year before 2001, which would be equivalent to between 5,000 and 18,000 lizard eggs from the five soft-shelled lizard ...

Their skin must stay moist to absorb oxygen and therefore lacks scales. Reptiles are turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators and crocodiles. Unlike amphibians, reptiles breathe only through their lungs ...

making turtles one of the oldest reptile groups and a more ancient group than lizards, snakes or crocodiles. Of the many species alive today, some are highly endangered. Turtles are ectotherms ...

The petition, filed with E.O. Wilson, Thomas Lovejoy and other scientists, asked the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect six turtles, seven snakes, two toads, four frogs, 10 lizards and 24 ...

This snail-eating turtle, called Malayemys isan ... The Vietnamese crocodile lizard (Shinisaurus crocodilurus vietnamensis), a scaly reptile, hails from northern Vietnam's forests.

They include crocodiles, snakes, lizards, turtles, and tor- toises. All regularly shed the outer layer of their skin. Their metabolism depends on the temperature of their environment. Unlike birds ...

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 ...