Naming all the creatures and plants in nature is no small task. Fortunate Phaka is a zoologist who has conducted the first comprehensive analysis of naming and classification of frogs and reptiles in ...
Scientists kept a 4-foot-long predator in captivity for over a decade and discovered a new species from Ethiopia, a study said. Photo from BDU Fellowship VLM via Unsplash A scientist visiting Ethiopia ...
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Surprise results in search for South African lizard species that have been missing for decades
What happens when a species has not been seen by anyone for decades? Environmentalists think of these as "lost species." We do not know if they've gone extinct, or if it's simply that nobody has ...
A fossilised colony of small burrowing reptiles that lived some 250 million years ago was recently found in South Africa. It’s the first time that the Procolophon trigoniceps, which lived in the ...
The horned adder has small horn-like scales above its eyes that help break up its outline in sandy environments. Africa is home to hundreds of snake species, but only a small percentage are ...
Krystal Tolley receives funding from the National Research Foundation of South Africa. What happens when a species has not been seen by anyone for decades? Environmentalists think of these as “lost ...
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