A new study led by the University of Oxford has revealed that reptiles confined to islands are facing a double jeopardy.

A new study led by the University of Oxford has revealed that reptiles confined to islands are facing a double jeopardy. Despite being more likely to ...

Reptiles include a wide variety of cold-blooded, air-breathing vertebrates, including snakes, lizards, turtles, iguanas, ...

It's not often that you lose a species for over 60 years, but that's what happened to this little lizard that has been coming ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Even the king cobra is "vulnerable." More than 1 in 5 species of reptiles worldwide are threatened with extinction, according to a comprehensive new assessment of thousands of ...

Did you know that one-fifth of the world’s reptiles are at risk of extinction? And amphibians are declining by about 4% every year, according to the United States Geological Survey. Experts say the No ...

A new study by the Zoological Society of London has found that 19% — nearly one in five — of the world’s 10,000 species of reptiles are threatened with extinction. The study, which has been printed in ...

Evolution has resulted in the development of both herbivores and carnivores -- but how? What type of food did extinct vertebrates eat? And how can we gain insight into the diets of these creatures? In ...

Komodo dragons outlived giant reptile peers through isolation and lucky breaks. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- Extinction wiped out their closest family members as well as most ...