CARSON CITY — Commercial collectors have plucked nearly half a million reptiles off the Nevada desert landscape in the last three decades. There have been more than 420,000 collections since figures ...

Rafe Brown, curator of herpetology at the Natural History Museum, recently came back from the Philippines with several new specimens, some new species. The specimens will become part of the ...

CARSON CITY­ — Commercial reptile collecting in Nevada may become banned, effectively ending a cottage industry of collectors who gather lizards and snakes from the desert landscape. State wildlife ...

Curator Greg Pandelis handles a goliath frog at the Amphibian and Reptile Diversity Research Center at The University of Texas at Arlington. At the University of Texas at Arlington, you’ll find two ...

POLICE are hunting thieves who broke into a Newcastle wildlife sanctuary overnight and stole almost its entire collection of reptiles, ruining the holiday plans of hundreds of schoolchildren. Police ...

HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. – A North Carolina man is losing his exotic reptile collection worth $49,000 after police found dozens of venomous lizards and snakes in his home. Fifty-one-year-old Walter Kidd ...

External parasites not only annoy pet reptiles, but they can also transmit disease and be very debilitating, even causing death in extreme cases. Preventing and/or dealing with their introduction and ...

Amy Hysick, a biology teacher at Cicero-North Syracuse High School, was named the state's Teacher of the Year for 2017. SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- The 2017 New York State Teacher of the Year is a Cicero-North ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada is considering imposing restrictions on reptile collectors after figures show nearly a half-million creatures have been removed from the state in the past 30 years. All the ...

LAS VEGAS — Nevada is considering imposing restrictions on reptile collectors after figures show nearly a half-million creatures have been removed from the state in the past 30 years. All the states ...