You’ve heard the slogans: save the whales, protect our pollinators. You may have lamented the decline of polar bears or the last of the northern white rhinos. But scientists are only beginning to ...

More than 115 people have become ill so far after close contact with these animals—with nearly three dozen reported ...

If a reptile café was going to open anywhere in Toronto, let’s be honest, there’s nowhere it would thrive better than the ...

This story appears in the August 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. One night years ago, biologist Albert Manville drove to a garbage dump near Lake Louise in Alberta’s Banff National Park.

Million Years of Separation Madagascar has been isolated from mainland Africa and Asia for more than 80 million years and has ...

Watch as The Reptarium evolves before your eyes. Brian Barczyk’s meticulous process turns bare walls into a thriving gecko sanctuary, using both engineering skill and herpetological expertise to ...

A new gecko species, Hemidactylus quartziticolus, has been discovered in Tamil Nadu's quartzite hills. This miniature, spine-covered reptile was found ...

Scientists in India discover a small lizard covered in spines, revealing a unique new species of gecko - Hemidactylus quartziticolus ...

Scientists found a “slender” creature, “quick” to change its color, on a tree in India and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Bhupathi, Ray, Narayana, Karuthapandi, Jaiswal, Kar and ...