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 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 ...

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 ...

At the University of Texas at Arlington, you'll find two rooms of clear jars packed together like sardines. Their contents, submerged in foggy yellow liquid, hail from all over the world. Some hold ...

What begins as a simple tour of African reptiles quickly turns into a full showcase of some of the strangest and most impressive animals in the collection. Giant rock pythons, massive monitor lizards, ...

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 ...