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Gharial hatchlings. Image courtesy of Surya P. Sharma.

Rising heat threatens female-male ratio of India’s unique gharial crocs

Mongabay.com 30 Jul 2025
The Barbados threadsnake, a species lost to science for 20 years, was found during an ecological survey on Barbados by the Barbados Ministry of the Environment and National Beautification and Re:wild in March 2025. Image courtesy of Connor Blades

World’s smallest snake spotted by scientists in Barbados after 20-year absence

Liz Kimbrough 23 Jul 2025
Cnemaspis nilgala is a gecko that is found only in the rocky outcrop of Nilgala and is named after this unique habitat. Image courtesy of Suranjan Karunarathne.

Sri Lanka grants protection to a rare ecosystem

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Jul 2025

Global tracking study reveals marine megafauna hotspots lie largely unprotected

Keith Anthony Fabro 16 Jul 2025

Suspicions surround international legal trade in Galápagos iguanas

Spoorthy Raman 10 Jul 2025
Red-crowned roofed turtles released into the river have been tagged with transmitters to monitor their safety and migration. Image courtesy of Turtle Survival Alliance Foundation India.

Tracking the return of critically endangered turtles in India’s Ganga River

Mongabay.com 3 Jul 2025
Fishermen releasing a sea turtle.

Peru’s new bycatch training aims to help save hooked sea turtles: Q&A with fisher Gustavo Rosales

Ana Cristina Alvarado 18 Jun 2025
Pelicans have rebounded on the restored Queen Bess Island off the coast of Louisiana. Photo courtesy of Alisha Renfro

Pelicans recover, but dolphins and other species struggle 15 years after BP oil spill

Mongabay.com 18 Jun 2025
Wild Frequencies

Mongabay India wins best science podcast at Publisher Podcast Awards

Mongabay.com 12 Jun 2025
Dendrelaphis melanarkys or black net tree snake. Photo by Fred Kraus.

Four new snake species discovered in Papua New Guinea

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Jun 2025
An Aldabra giant tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea). These long-lived tortoises are found on both Assomption island and the neighboring island of Aldabra, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Image courtesy of Celina Chien/ Overstories.

Green groups oppose Qatari luxury resort near pristine world heritage site

Malavika Vyawahare 3 Jun 2025

Critically endangered chameleon discovered outside its known habitat in Madagascar

Rivonala Razafison 3 Jun 2025
A Blyde rondawels flat gecko. Image courtesy of the Endangered Wildlife Trust.

‘Absolutely ecstatic’: Scientists confirm survival of rare South African gecko

Ryan Truscott 20 May 2025
Puff Adder, a venomous snake from Africa, topped the list of vertebrates with the highest risk of being invasive in the U.S.

Venomous snakes, freshwater fish among legally traded species most likely to become invasive in US

Spoorthy Raman 19 May 2025

15 years after the BP oil spill disaster, how is the Gulf of Mexico faring?

Liz Kimbrough 21 Apr 2025
Banner image of Mommy, the Western Santa Cruz Galápagos tortoise, courtesy of Philadelphia Zoo.

97-year-old Galápagos tortoise becomes a first-time mom

Kristine Sabillo 11 Apr 2025
A tokay gecko in Indonesia. Indonesia is the world's largest exporter of these geckos, with more than 8 million harvest quotas issued in 2022.

Amid fuzzy data, scientists urge monitoring of Hong Kong’s tokay gecko trade

Spoorthy Raman 3 Apr 2025
A recently release juvenile Siamese crocodile in Cambodia.

Siamese crocodile release into the wild marks conservation milestone in Cambodia

Anton L. Delgado 28 Mar 2025
An archival image of Satish Bhaskar holding a hawksbill turtle. Image courtesy of Satish Bhaskar.

The Turtle Walker: Satish Bhaskar, sea turtle conservationist

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Mar 2025
A red sand boa. Image by Sagar khunte via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Superstitions fuel trafficking of India’s red sand boa

Mongabay.com 28 Mar 2025
Zeeshan Mirza with one of the new tarantula species from the Western Ghats. Mirza has discovered several species of reptiles in India as well. Photo courtesy of Mirza.

Exploring India, finding new species: Interview with biologist Zeeshan Mirza

Liz Kimbrough 27 Mar 2025

Microplastics in sea turtle nests could cause a dangerous gender imbalance

Bobby Bascomb 26 Mar 2025
Rescue operation at the Lavavolo Tortoise Center.

Devastating flood forces relocation of 10,000 tortoises at Madagascar sanctuary

Rivonala Razafison 26 Mar 2025
Banner image of a loggerhead sea turtle released in 2021, courtesy of Vanessa Kahn/New England Aquarium.

Surgically implanted tags offer rare insight into rehabilitated sea turtles

Kristine Sabillo 25 Mar 2025
An individual  of a newly discovered gecko species in Nepal now named Karan's bent-toed gecko after veteran Nepali herpetologist Karan Bahadur Shah. Image courtesy of Santosh Bhattarai,

Three new gecko species described in Nepal: Interview with herpetologist Santosh Bhattarai

Abhaya Raj Joshi 21 Mar 2025
A still from Turtle Walker.

How one researcher walked thousands of miles along India’s shores to conserve sea turtles

Priyanka Shankar 20 Mar 2025
Scientists describe a new parrot snake species from the Brazilian Cerrado. Image courtesy of Diego Santana.

New species of parrot snake described in Brazil’s threatened Cerrado

Shanna Hanbury 6 Mar 2025
Banner image of the American crocodile by Joseph Ricketts, courtesy of FWC.

Researchers track Florida’s crocodiles to increase acceptance amid urbanization

Kristine Sabillo 5 Mar 2025
A sea turtle.

Concerns of illegal sea turtle trade persist in Bali as police foil smugglers

Luh De Suriyani 27 Feb 2025
Researchers examine a dead olive ridley at Cox's Bazar Beach.

Conservationists suspect fishing nets, increased tourism for sea turtle deaths in Bangladesh

Abu Siddique 24 Feb 2025
The team that developed the kit has put it into the hands of conservationists to collect samples from lakes across Vietnam.

Can a new DNA test save the world’s rarest turtle?

Abhishyant Kidangoor 19 Feb 2025

Wave of arrests as Madagascar shuts down tortoise trafficking network

Rivonala Razafison 17 Feb 2025

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