Currently there are an estimated nearly 9,000 reptiles in the world, while the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List has assessed all of the world’s described mammals, birds, ...

Island reptiles are vanishing fast—but scientists are barely paying attention. Here's why that needs to change.

The Mary River turtle is an odd little reptile. Finger-like protrusions dangle from its chin, it breathes through gill-like organs in its genitals and vertical strands of algae sprout from its head, ...

Louise Gentle does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

A Mary River Turtle looks on in Queensland, Australia, in this 2008 photo obtained from social media. Chris Van Wyk/via REUTERS Mary River (Elusor macrurus), a bizarre turtle that breathes with its ...

The Sex Pistols reckon they invented punk in the 1970s but Australia had its own mohawk-wearing rebels thousands of years before anyone had ever heard of Johnny Rotten. With fleshy barbels like spiked ...

A punk turtle with a green mohican and highly unconventional lifestyle is the star attraction in a new list of endangered reptiles. The Mary River turtle (Elusor macrurus) has a head crowned by ...

With its punk rocker barnet and rather unusual ability to breathe underwater through its genitals, the Mary River turtle is not like most of us. Unfortunately, however, a new assessment shows that it ...

A new species of day gecko, Cnemaspis godagedarai, has been described in Sri Lanka, bringing the island’s number of endemic geckos in the genus Cnemaspis to 25. The new gecko, named after a national ...

A "punk turtle" with a green mohican is the star attraction in a new list of endangered reptiles. The Mary River turtle (Elusor macrurus) has a head crowned by vertical strands of algae that also grow ...

A punk turtle with a green mohican and highly unconventional lifestyle is the star attraction in a new list of endangered reptiles. The Mary River turtle (Elusor macrurus) has a head crowned by ...

With a plume or fluorescent green hair, you might mistake this turtle as a puppet from The Muppets. But the turtle is very much real, and worryingly, it has just been added to the Z oological Society ...