Fortunate Phaka is a zoologist who has conducted the first comprehensive analysis of naming and classification of frogs and ...

Some species of South African tortoises, chameleons, girdled lizards and small-body vipers are prevalent in the pet trade, leading to poaching of live animals. Though there’s some good news ...

Fittingly, gopher tortoises in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama (west of the Mobile and Tombigbee rivers) are protected as threatened under the Endangered Species Act — but those in eastern Alabama, ...

An endangered giant tortoise has become the oldest first-time mom of her species after having her first ... at the Riverbanks Zoo and Garden in South Carolina, which successfully bred western ...