South Africa is a hub for the international pet trade, with thousands of animals exported each year. Many of these are exotic ...

Bourque’s co-worker and co-author, Edward Stanley, helped use machine learning and artificial intelligence to compare the ...

You can’t get more vacation-ready than nails topped with tiny hibiscus flowers or manicures meant to look like itty-bitty seashells.

The genus ot shell-fish ... and the final polish is given with rotten stone and sulphuric acid, unless tortoise-shell or some other substance liable to be injuiiously affected by the acid be ...

The prickly pear cactus (Opuntia) is a massive genus with over 150 known species ... snack for wildlife like rabbits, deer, and tortoises. Birds are also fond of this species, eating the nectar ...

tortoises, crocodilians and the tuataras). The discipline can include the biology, ecology, behaviour, taxonomy and husbandry of these organisms.

Beetles of this genus are pests that concern cactus growers because they ... these reptiles have a symbiotic relationship with the gopher tortoise. During winter, they cozy up in gopher tortoise ...

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Over 100 desert tortoises at the Arizona Game and Fish Department need a forever home. AZGFD says the reptiles will soon wake up from brumation, which is similar to hibernation, and this is the ...

AP Photo/Sophie Bates A tortoise that was displaced from its home in Mississippi during a deadly tornado outbreak has finally been reunited with its family weeks later. Tiffany Emanuel told the ...

Thomas, the 200-pound tortoise, recently visited the Rotary Club of St. Francisville and Bains Lower Elementary School, guided by handlers Cecil and Lauren Garaudy, of Denham Springs. The father ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The Philadelphia Zoo is celebrating the mother tortoise and her babies that set a world record. The Western Santa Cruz Galapagos Tortoise made international headlines ...