Reptiles Magazine

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...

Someone illegally dumped more than 150 box turtles at the edge of a river in Cranford NJ July 29, the Cranford Fire Department reported on its Facebook page July 30. According to the fire department post, local residents, animal control officers and law enforcement were able to retrieve nearly 100 turtles, both native (Eastern box turtles, (Terrapene carolina)) to Ne...

ALERT: Mobile, AL

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The Mobile City Council has proposed a new animal ordinance. Local stakeholders should engage in the proces...