New York has added the Atlantic Coast leopard frog, eastern fence lizard and eastern tiger salamander to its protected threatened and endangered species lists. The state’s Department of Environmental ...

With these finds, Costa Rica claims 58 salamander species, putting us sixth in the world ... hunting bugs to keep pests down while feeding birds and lizards in our food chain. It took years to prove ...

Eastern hellbenders were hard hit in Virginia when Helene struck in September 2024. Now wildlife experts are trying to save ...

Imagine a creature basking on a sun-warmed rock, its scales shimmering in the light, barely moving—yet, somehow, staying ...

It is the site of a dramatic moment in Scottish history. The Isle of Skye's rocky shoreline is where Charles Edward Stuart - known as Bonnie Prince Charlie - arrived by boat disguised as a maid to ...

Sharing this ecosystem were crocodiles, salamanders, lizards, turtles, small mammals and flying reptiles called pterosaurs. This time period predates the earliest known bird fossils. "Footprints ...

The Mojave Desert may lose and gain suitable habitat for Gila monsters. But the unathletic reptiles might be mostly stuck in the waning oases.

Researchers have discovered two new species in a 125-million-year-old fossil in China. While they’d be wiped out by a T-Rex ...