Reptiles are reservoirs of a wide range of pathogens, including many protozoa, helminths,
pentastomids, and arthropod parasitic species, some of which may be of public health …

Assembled here is a reasonably complete list of annotated codes for historical and modern
natural history collections associated with lost and extant specimens of fossil and Recent …

While there are millions of reptile images available online, they are not well organized and
not easily findable, accessible, interoperable, or reproducible (FAIR). More importantly, they …

The secretive behavior and life history of snakes makes studying their biology, distribution,
and the epidemiology of venomous snakebite challenging. One of the most useful, most …

We carried out a taxonomic revision of Ahaetulla species inhabiting Peninsular India, using
a multiple criteria approach (including genetics, morphology, and geography). Our work …

The kinetic skull is a key innovation that allowed snakes to capture, manipulate, and swallow
prey exclusively using their heads using the coordinated movement of eight bones. Despite …

Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species, published in 2014, was the
first catalogue of its kind and covered all living and fossil snakes described between 1758 …

The modern classification of skinks is based on a nomenclature that dates to the 1970s.
However, there are a number of earlier names in the family group that have been …