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Oil spill continues in Gulf of Mexico vulnerable habitats, while Pemex admits fault

Caitlin Cooper 22 Apr 2026
A mature Nile perch grows to an average 1.21 to 1.37 meters (4 to 4.5 feet).

From carp to hippos, 43% of large freshwater animal species spread far beyond native ranges

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Apr 2026

Council recommends opening US Pacific marine monuments to commercial fishing

Bobby Bascomb 13 Apr 2026
Giant Tortoise

Return of the giant tortoises

Sam Lee 2 Apr 2026
A new species of pit viper was discovered and is still in the process of being described. Image courtesy of Fauna & Flora.

New species discovered in Cambodia’s rare rocky ecosystems

Shanna Hanbury 2 Apr 2026

A 3-limbed Kemp’s ridley sea turtle is now being tracked at sea by satellite

Associated Press 26 Mar 2026

Compost, racoons and sea turtle predation in Costa Rica

Bobby Bascomb 25 Mar 2026

In Laos, ancestral spirits are helping save one of the world’s rarest crocodiles

Liz Kimbrough 25 Mar 2026

Captive-bred Panamanian golden frogs released to the wild

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Mar 2026
The Ranitomeya aetherea poison dart frog. Image courtesy of Alexander Mônico.

An ‘ethereal’ new-to-science poison dart frog from the Amazon: Photo of the week

Shanna Hanbury 19 Mar 2026
Galaxy frog in the Western Ghats, India, with photo taken by conservationist Rajkumar K P as part of conservation project (c) Rajkumar K P ZSL .jpg

World Frog Day: New species described amid threats to amphibian survival

Mongabay.com 19 Mar 2026
The noise from dredges and large vessels may interfere with the Amazon river turtle’s communication. Image courtesy of Camila Ferrara/WCS Brasil.

Amazon waterway noise threatens unique social life of giant river turtles

Fernanda Wenzel 17 Mar 2026
Sea turtles, another migratory species, need safe ocean passageways to move between feeding grounds and nesting beaches.

Outlook for migratory species worsens amid habitat loss & avian flu, report finds

Gloria Dickie 12 Mar 2026
Gimlett's reed snake (Calamaria lovii gimletti), rediscovered in Singapore in 2017 after an absence of 84 years. Photo credit: the Law Brothers

Can Singapore rewild its lost reptiles?

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Mar 2026
Justin Claude Rakotoarisoa, project leader and founding member of Association Mitsinjo. Image by Rivonala Razafison for Mongabay.

Justin Claude Rakotoarisoa, a guardian of Madagascar’s amphibians, has died, aged 45

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Mar 2026

Online ads reveal scale — and gaps — in amphibian pet trade into US

David Brown 27 Feb 2026
Eastern shingleback lizards in New South Wales, Australia.

Australia hands record prison sentence to reptile smuggler in trafficking crackdown

Gloria Dickie 25 Feb 2026
Sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus); the species is one of 19 cetacean species that spend time in the Azores.

Azores dodges proposal to overturn no-fishing zones in its giant new MPA network

Maria José Mendes 23 Feb 2026

Giant tortoises return to Galápagos island 180 years after relatives went extinct

Bobby Bascomb 20 Feb 2026

Texas sea turtles have lost a conservation hero (commentary)

Todd Steiner 16 Feb 2026
A Malayan softshell turtle (Dogania subplana).

Study refutes claim that Indonesia’s legal turtle trade supports livelihoods

Spoorthy Raman 16 Feb 2026

Snakes on a train: King cobras are hitching rides in India

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Feb 2026
Dave Collins holds a Yellow-bellied Slider (Trachemys scripta), a local turtle whose populations are doing just fine in the Eastern US. Photo by Liz Kimbrough for Mongabay.

A last refuge for turtles on the brink

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Feb 2026

Habitat destruction, illegal trade threaten Sri Lanka’s endangered agamid lizards

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe 31 Jan 2026
a newly hatched Rote Island snake-necked turtles (Chelodina mccordi) at the turtle survival center in South Carolina USA. Photo by Liz Kimbrough

The Turtle Bank: The last of these Asian turtle species find refuge in the Carolina pines

Liz Kimbrough 28 Jan 2026
Cathy Kuttle drive slowly through the Cape Town suburb of Noordhoek on a rainy winter evening.

Helping Cape Town’s toads cross the road: Interview with Andrew Turner

Barry Christianson 8 Jan 2026

Biologist kidnapped in Mexico

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Jan 2026
A baird's tapir goes for dip. Image by Bernard Dupont via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Deforestation climbs in Central America’s largest biosphere reserve

Morgan Erickson-Davis 31 Dec 2025
O. shunkusacha

A new frog species emerges from Peru’s cloud forests — and it’s already at risk

Astrid Arellano 30 Dec 2025

Photos: Top new species from 2025

Liz Kimbrough 29 Dec 2025
Jay M Savage. Screenshot from an interview with OTS.

Jay M. Savage, witness to disappearing frogs and builder of tropical science

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Dec 2025
Tell Hicks, from his Facebook page.

Tell Hicks, reptile artist

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Dec 2025

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