This course will provide professionals with exposure to essential aspects of reptile conservation (both in-situ and ex-situ). The course will teach reptile diversity and phylogeny using living and museum collections at the National Zoological Park and National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC. Leer más.

El «Obamadon», un pequeño lagarto que vivió hace 65 millones de años y que se extinguió con los dinosaurios, ha sido nombrado en honor al actual presidente de EE.UU., Barack Obama, con quien comparte tener «una dentadura fuerte y sana», según los científicos responsables de la designación. Leer más.

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A sick tortoise, which had been kept in a glass tank and had become severely constipated having eaten the gravel and stones on its cage floor, has recovered after an ‘adult sexual aid toy’ was used as a vibrating massager strapped to the underside of its shell. Leer más.

Marine snakes are fascinating. Entire articles have been written about their morphological and physiological adaptations to marine life, from their lingual salt glands, which are more efficient than kidneys at removing sodium ions from their body, to their rudimentary left lung, which serves a function for the first time in millions of years, aiding in buoyancy control in a manner analogous to the swim bladders of many fishes. Leer más.