The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Officials is reminding residents to not release their pets into the wild after ...

The other is that snakes don’t gather in general, since people tend to only come across one snake at a time. “So there was ...

THUNDER BAY – Lise Parent wants the city to allow ball pythons to be kept as pets. “Ball pythons are among the most widely kept reptiles in Canada and globally. They are non-venomous, docile, and ...

Snakes offer a surprising solution to kidney stones and gout. Unlike humans, reptiles excrete uric acid as tiny, smooth ...

Lauren Alyse Smith told Newsweek that "there’s something really special about seeing two totally different animals be so ...

Many reptiles excrete solid uric acid crystals instead of liquid urine, a water-saving adaptation that could hold clues for human medicine. If you’ve never cared for a reptile, you might be surprised ...

Crystals "peed" by snakes could hold the key to treating kidney stones and gout in humans, say scientists. Researchers ...

Unless you've owned reptiles, you might not know that many of them "pee" crystals. Researchers publishing in the Journal of ...

When too much of it builds up, it can crystallize painfully in our joints, causing gout, or solidify into kidney stones. In ...

Reptiles release solid crystals instead of liquid waste. This clever survival trick may lead to new treatments for gout and kidney stones.

A new reptile genetics testing company, Phenome, is working on fully mapping out the genomes of a number of reptile species for the first time. The company first made its debut this year at the North ...