Giraffes give birth standing up, so a baby giraffe's first experience outside the womb is a six-foot fall, but baby ...

Some species of South African tortoises, chameleons, girdled lizards and small-body vipers are prevalent in the pet trade, leading to poaching of live animals. We are herpetologists who are part ...

Tolley and her team have identified 11 new chameleon species since 2006, in South Africa, Mozambique, Tanzania, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Massachusetts-born professor has ...