As the first woman curator of the National Museum of Natural History’s collection of amphibians and reptiles, Doris Cochran ...

Quick Take Snakes usually shed their skin in one complete piece, while lizards and amphibians shed in messy, irregular patches. Many species practice dermatophagy, eating their old skin to recover ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Six-foot predatory lizards normally found along the Nile River in Africa have set up shop in South Florida ...

KENEDY, Texas — "We couldn't wait to get home, change our clothes and go play with the Horned Toads," says Lisa Yaklin. She grew up in Kenedy, Texas... now designated as the 'Horned Toad Capital of ...

Scientists in Australia have come up with an unusual plan to save freshwater crocodiles that keep dying after eating invasive and poisonous toads. By filling dead toads with a chemical that makes the ...

Whether you refer to them as horned frogs, horny toads or by their official name — the Texas horned lizard — there's a chance you may know these native reptiles. Your grandkids, however, might not.

More than 300 toads are saved from the roads as they travel to a nearby pond in Staffordshire.

The post-winter rains have come, temperatures are rising, and salamanders are undertaking their once-a-year migrations to ...

As tasty as it might look, you should refrain from licking the Sonoran desert toad, the National Park Service has warned. On Tuesday, the NPS used Facebook to warn passerby to use caution around the ...