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Indian spiny tailed lizard.

The lizard caught between myth and modernisation

Sneha Richhariya, Tej Prakash Bhardwaj 7 Nov 2024
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Baby snakes with toxic traits

Arathi Menon 30 Aug 2024
The Russell’s viper rescued by Saurav Borkataki on 2 August 2024 from the Bihaguri area of Sonitpur district. Image by Saurav Borkataki.

Misinformation about Russell’s viper stokes incidents of snake killing in Assam

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 28 Aug 2024

Gharial conservation should extend to unprotected rivers

Arathi Menon 21 Feb 2024

[Book review] A frank and fearless autobiography of India’s snakeman

Meena Menon 13 Feb 2024

Pythons return home, slowly but surely, finds a new study

Arathi Menon 6 Dec 2023

No magic bullets to deal with snakebites

Arathi Menon 22 Nov 2023

Study busts myths around king cobra venom

Arathi Menon 9 Nov 2023

Venomous snakebites, an occupational hazard for women tea workers

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 8 Sep 2023
A male gharial with its distinctive ‘ghara.’

The endangered gharial’s conservation crisis highlighted after death of a male in Nepal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 21 Aug 2023

With a Russell’s viper and snakebite resurgence, Bangladesh looks to developing antivenom

Abu Siddique 12 Jun 2023

Call to save rare snake habitat follows red coral kukri sightings in Bangladesh

Rafiqul Islam 31 May 2023

Why the dancing frog may no longer be able to shake a leg

Deepa Padmanabhan 13 Apr 2023
Image shows a yellow and black striped snake

Evolutionary lineages of the banded krait discovered through molecular methods

Ashvita Anand 3 Apr 2023
A Sikkim grass lizard

The elusive and endangered Sikkim grass lizard makes a rare appearance in Nepal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 14 Sep 2022
The Nicobar crab-eating macaque is one of the major fauna of the Great Nicobar Island. Photo by Prasun Goswami/Wikimedia Commons.

The container terminal that could sink the Great Nicobar Island

Mayank Aggarwal 20 Jul 2022
A gharial on the banks of the Rapti River

New gharial hatchlings in Nepal a hopeful sign for the critically endangered reptile

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Jun 2022

[Commentary] Tracing the leopard gecko’s story from pet trade to the lab and beyond

Anurag Mishra 7 Feb 2022

Snakes in Bengaluru city

Almaas Masood 19 Jan 2022

Scientists describe a new Himalayan snake species found via Instagram

Liz Kimbrough 29 Nov 2021