February 2021

Critics like to stress that good novels understand the passage of time and therefore know how to manipulate the reader's perception of it. Let me offer you a corollary: good graphic novels understand space…

Robert Edman of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission demonstrates catching pythons January 10, 2020 in Sunrise, Florida. The FWC recently voted to restrict 16 non-native species, including pythons.(Joe Raedle/Getty…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (News Service of Florida) – Commercial breeding of non-native tegu lizards and green iguanas in Florida will end in three years despite objections from reptile dealers and owners warning of the potential destruction of…

Florida restricts the possession and private breeding of certain exotic animals, including Burmese pythons, green iguanas and tegu lizards, citing concerns about invasive species invading the state. This decision is met with strong…

A Pennsylvania woman who claimed she was under the influence of an alien reptile cult when she shot and killed her boyfriend will remain locked up in prison on Earth for some time.A state Superior Court panel made sure of that by upholding…

A new species of extinct skink that lived in the Oligocene era has been identified from fossilized remains found in South Australia. The swamp skink (Lissolepis coventryi), which is probably the most similar living lizard to Proegernia…

Biologists from the Herpetology Department of the Natural History Museum (MHN) in San!-->…

The male of a newly discovered species named Brookesia nana may be the smallest adult reptile ever found. Frank Glaw (SNSB/ZSM)…

Scientists have discovered a whole new species of chameleon in a patch of rainforest in northern Madagascar. This so-called nano-chameleon is about the size of a sunflower seed, fits on the tip of a finger, and is possibly the smallest…