Here's a fact you should know about the world in which you live: It's home to more kinds of scaly reptiles than all the mammal families combined. The reptile order Squamata, which includes snakes, ...

Snakes are reptiles of the order Squamata that have no limbs on their long, scaly bodies. These reptiles routinely undergo ecdysis, which is the shedding of a layer of skin. They do this to ...

Three names have been applied to members of the Carlia novaeguineae complex from New Guinea. All three species have been poorly or erroneously diagnosed, leading to the long-time synonymization of ...