Herps News

RSS
816 stories

After a century of mistaken identity, a Balinese gecko gets its own name

Fransisca N. Tirtaningtyas, Rahmadi Rahmad 4 Jun 2020

Audio: North America’s looming salamander pandemic: Is the U.S. ready?

Mongabay.com 20 May 2020

One point for Slytherin: New Indian pit viper named after Harry Potter character

Liz Kimbrough 29 Apr 2020
...probably a Natal dwarf puddle frog in the Gambia. Image by Thomas Brown via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA-2.0)

The frog that wasn’t there: Survey shines a light on Uganda’s amphibians

Fredrick Mugira 11 Apr 2020

Field research, interrupted: How the COVID-19 crisis is stalling science

Liz Kimbrough 9 Apr 2020

In Madagascar, revived environmental crime hotline leads to tortoise bust

Edward Carver 6 Apr 2020

‘Titanic challenge’ for an Italian hospital rescuing sea turtles from plastic

Mongabay.com 2 Apr 2020

For nesting hawksbill turtles, this Philippine community is a sanctuary

Erwin M. Mascariñas 31 Mar 2020

New snake discovery in Sri Lanka is latest twist in slow-burning mystery

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 31 Mar 2020

New assessment shows Sri Lanka’s amphibians being pushed to the brink

Malaka Rodrigo 23 Mar 2020

Three new species of chameleons emerge from centuries-old entanglement

Malavika Vyawahare 20 Mar 2020

‘Just incredible’ reptiles and amphibians of South Africa: Q&A with Tyrone Ping

Erik Hoffner 16 Mar 2020

Muduga leaping frog is first new member of its genus found in over a century

Mongabay.com 11 Mar 2020

Isolated by civil war, Sri Lanka’s Jaffna proves to be a herp haven

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 11 Feb 2020

As 2019 ends, reptile-rich Sri Lanka delivers three more new gecko species

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 15 Jan 2020

Killing gods: The last hope for the world’s rarest reptile

Jeremy Hance 7 Jan 2020
Female golden rocket frog perched and listening to a male call. Photo credit: Beth A. Pettitt/University of Minnesota

Female golden rocket frogs know a good father when they hear him

Lara Streiff 19 Dec 2019

Sea turtles continue to swim in troubled waters: report

Elham Shirin 19 Dec 2019

Arhuaco community of Colombia allows scientists to photograph ‘lost’ toad

Mongabay.com 17 Dec 2019

Amazon’s giant South American river turtle holding its own, but risks abound

Jenny Gonzales 6 Dec 2019
The reed frog (Hyperolius molleri) is endemic to the island of São Tomé off the coast of Central Africa and was one of the species sampled in the study. Photo by Andrew Stanbridge

Rapid genetic test traces spread of fungus that kills frogs, reveals new strain in Southeast Asia

Jonathan Wosen 25 Nov 2019

Rare fish-eating crocodile confirmed nesting in southwest Nepal after 37 years

Mongabay.com 21 Nov 2019

New toads named from a Sumatran biodiversity trove that’s under threat

Mongabay.com 6 Nov 2019

‘Fantastic grandmothers’ snorkel, help uncover large sea snake population

Mongabay.com 4 Nov 2019

This toad from central Africa impersonates a deadly viper to avoid predators

Mongabay.com 24 Oct 2019
Green sea turtle. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

For one Indonesian fisher, saving caught turtles is a moral challenge

Ian Morse 23 Oct 2019

Photos: Meet the surprisingly diverse day geckos of Sri Lanka

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 18 Oct 2019

International wildlife trade sweeps across ‘tree of life,’ study finds

Mongabay.com 7 Oct 2019

Sri Lanka scientists stand by naming of new geckos amid nationalist criticism

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 10 Sep 2019

What’s in a name? For Sri Lanka’s newest geckos, a political firestorm

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 27 Aug 2019

Some turtle embryos can influence their own sex, study finds

Shreya Dasgupta 2 Aug 2019

Logging, mining companies lock eyes on a biodiverse island like no other

Gianluca Cerullo 31 Jul 2019

you're currently offline