Reptiles Magazine

A new snake species from New Guinea has been named after Saul Hudson, also known as the guitarist Slash. The snake, Lielaphis slashi or Slash’s groundsnake, was discovered in 2006 Chris Austin, a professor and curator of herpetology at the Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science. Austin was conducting field work in New Guinea when he happened upon the sn...

Two people are facing wildlife trafficking charges stemming from what the U.S. Department of Justice calls a years-long trafficking scheme to bring reptiles into the United States from Mexico. Georgina Bribiesca Chavez of Tijuana, Mexico and Salvador Pelayo of Chula Vista, CA have both been accused of trafficking in exotic wildlife.

Chavez was arrested August 10 at the...

Scientists have described a new species of frog from the genus Brachytarsophrys. Named the short-legged toad, the frog was found in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in China.

Robert Woods, founder of Let’s Go Coloring has offered Reptilesmagazine.com readers a few free reptile coloring pages, exclusively for the website. You can check them out here, and for more coloring pages, be sure to check out Let’s Go Coloring at letsgocoloring.com

After more than 15 years of legal wrangling, including a listing of the dunes sagebrush lizard (Sceloporus arenicolus) as an endangered species in 2024 under the Biden Administration, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has ended endangered species protections for the little reptile. Texas state attorney general Ken Paxton sued the Biden Administration in 2024, claimi...