Area of Focus: Reptiles

February 10, 2025

Headstarting program gives endangered amphibians, reptiles a boost

The Amphibian and Reptile Conservancy will be helping bring back a number of species threatened with extinction

February 3, 2025

Wildlife stowaways hitchhike on ornamental plants

As the global ornamental plant trade blooms, so does the number of its unintended passengers

January 31, 2025

TWS2024: Tegu lures don’t attract bycatch

Certain smells may attract tegus, but they don’t bring in raccoons and other native mammals

January 23, 2025

New portable DNA test could help detect rare turtle

Conservationists are searching for more Swinhoe’s softshell turtles—only two are known to exist in the world

November 27, 2024

eDNA detects invasive snake in Florida 

The new method can detect four invasive species with just one sample

November 19, 2024

Kemp’s ridley sea turtle makes transatlantic journey

A stranded Kemp’s ridley sea turtle found in Europe was returned to the Gulf of Mexico in November

November 7, 2024

How Canadian are they? 

A new study shows which animal species is the “most Canadian” by looking at evolutionary distinctness

November 1, 2024

Burmese pythons eat big

The invasive snakes are able to eat much larger species than researchers previously thought

October 25, 2024

Research challenges gopher tortoise listing decision

‘Inflated predictions from a flawed model’ may have affected the outcome of the decision, researchers allege

October 24, 2024

TWS2024: Burmese pythons eat their way across the continent

Fecal samples reveal that the invasive snakes’ ecological footprint extends past southern Florida