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A new species of frog in the genus <em>Pristimantis</em> discovered near Camp 3.
exploration

Frog-Spotting in One of South America's Least Accessible Mountain Ranges

A team of herpetologists trekked into Peru’s remote Vilcabamba Range and discovered animals found nowhere else on Earth.
Andy Isaacson March 10, 2017
Table for one, please.
animals

A Waitress Casually Dragged a Massive Lizard Out of a Restaurant in Australia

There's video.
Eric Grundhauser February 21, 2017
A tuatara in Wellington, New Zealand.
animals

The Unlikely Comeback of New Zealand's Weirdest 'Living Fossil'

Meet the tuatara, a three-eyed reptile with a 200-million-year-old lineage.
Amelia Urry January 31, 2017
Ponte Nossa, Italy

Crocodile at the Santuario Madonna delle Lacrime Immacolate

This church, better known for its weeping portrait of the Virgin Mary, also houses the world's oldest existing piece of taxidermy.
reptiles

The Ballad of Ol' Rip, the Horny Toad That Wouldn't Die

After 31 years entombed in a stone, this Texas icon came back to life.
Eric Grundhauser October 12, 2016
snakes

How a Deadly Camping Trip Revealed an Arms Race Between Snakes and Newts

Snakes' incredible resistance to newt poison started before either creature even existed.
Matt Soniak August 11, 2016
Brazil

Snake Island (Ilha da Queimada Grande)

Off-limits and full of venomous pit vipers, Brazil’s Snake Island has a frighteningly apt nickname.
Crocodile at Alligator Bay
Beauvoir, France

Alligator Bay

Europe's largest community of crocodiles and alligators.
museums

How to Travel Safely With a Crocodile

A professional reptile transporter breaks it down.
Tao Tao Holmes June 2, 2016
animals

FOUND: A Three-Tailed Lizard

Sarah Laskow October 5, 2015
animals

FOUND: A Fossil That Shows How Turtles Got Their Shells

Sarah Laskow June 25, 2015
Komodo Island
East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia

Komodo National Park

A sprawling nature preserve harbors the world's only living dragons.
A Turks and Caicos rock iguana sunning his glorious self.
Leeward Settlement, Turks and Caicos Islands

Iguana Island

Uninhabited islet in the Caribbean is the sanctuary of giant lizards.
Frog specimens at the California Academy of Sciences.
San Francisco, California

California Academy of Sciences Herpetology Department

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.