I had come here on an excursion with Bangkok Herping, a new walking-tour outfit that swaps the Thai capital city’s ...

Kolkata: Hundreds of reptiles, including Asian water monitor lizards protected under Schedule I of the country’s wildlife act ...

My guide, Thai American snake expert Christopher Shannon, caught it in the beam of his flashlight, the snake’s chartreuse ...

The Republic of the Congo is a rainforest safari standout where visitors come to track western lowland gorillas and forest elephants in vast, roadless Congo Basin wilderness-often with hardly another ...

Papua New Guinea is a biodiversity powerhouse where travelers come for dazzling birds-of-paradise, rare marsupials like tree kangaroos, and world-class coral reefs set against some of Earth's most ...

A new zoo has opened in San Luis Obispo County, and this one focuses on reptiles and doubles as a store. Andrew Barton loves reptiles. Growing up in Louisiana, he would catch turtles, fish and snakes ...

What begins as a simple tour of African reptiles quickly turns into a full showcase of some of the strangest and most impressive animals in the collection. Giant rock pythons, massive monitor lizards, ...