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When the fishing is slow, sometimes my buddies and I prefer to find frogs, spring lizards, worms, hellgrammites, and more.
Did the first modern tetrapods, our own distant ancestors, emerge in the temperate Devonian landscapes of southern Gondwana, ...
A baby monitor lizard was caught hiding in a grandmother's bedroom in Thailand. The hatchling sparked alarm when it slithered into the house of Boonpha Mee-ngern, 67, in Nakhon Ratchasima, on May 19.
The Afroedura rondavelica, commonly known as the Blyde River Flat Gecko, was discovered by Dr Niels Jacobsen in 1991.
John Long/The ConversationThe emergence of four-legged animals known as tetrapods was a key step in the evolution of many species today – including humans.Our new discovery, published today in Nature, ...
Nestled underneath the corpus callosum, in the middle of the brain, a tiny, pine-cone-shaped gland sits and spits out ...
The black snake Dendrelaphis atra has been discovered on an island in Papua New Guinea; this species stands out for its ...
The spring spawn is one of the most productive times to target bass. Males and females move into the shallows, making them easier to target. A combination of post-winter hunger and spawning aggression ...
The Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp Graphics of Lizard Man of Scape ... reports of a bipedal frog creature have emerged since 1955. Witnesses describe it as frog-like, with leathery skin and webbed ...
The silent nature of reptiles and amphibiansAs an ecologist and researcher working with reptiles and amphibians, Nirmal Kulkarni stresses that living in harmony ...
The eight years between 2015 and 2022 were the hottest on record. In 2022, 850 million people lived in regions that experienced all-time high temperatures. Globally, killer heat waves are becoming ...