The European Union (EU) is a major destination for illegally smuggled live snakes, lizards and tortoises from southern Africa, posing a serious threat to their conservation. Wealthy EU citizens are ...

The aesculapian snake, which can grow up to 6ft in length, is native to the warmer areas of Europe, including southern France and Italy , and have even been spotted in Iran .

Calling all ophidiophobes! This European country is one of the only locations in the world without snakes, making it the ...

One of the most impactful stories in evolution is getting a rewrite, thanks to the exciting discovery of the earliest known set of reptile footprints.Craig A. Eury and John Eason, two amateur ...

Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal on a slab of sandstone recovered near Melbourne. The fossil tracks date to around 350 million ...

Ancient reptile footprints upend theories about when animals evolved to live on land The 350 million year old fossils show characteristics similar to modern monitor lizards.

Meet Plesiopterys wildi, the marine reptile that may have been endemic to its region and may hold the key to understanding plesiosaur evolution. ... “It also suggests that distinct plesiosaur ...

The small reptile would have likely roamed the land of what is today southern Brazil, when the world was much hotter. The fossil has been identified as a new silesaurid, an extinct group of reptiles.

Doctors are warning against a dangerous treatment against unsightly eye bags, claiming that it can cause complications ranging from necrosis to permanent eye damage.

Europe News: A recent study ... NEW DELHI: Scientists have recently discovered that a 280-million-year-old fossil, believed to be a member of the reptile group, may have been partly forged.

Germany's reptile of the year for 2024 is the common European adder (Vipera berus), scientists said in a press release published on Sunday.. The German Association for Herpetology and Terrarium ...