Reptile Biology...
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10 Amazing Reptile Facts
Reptiles are a fascinating group of vertebrates with one of the longest histories of any living creature on Earth. First appearing over 300 million years ago, reptiles...
Bizarre Reptile Bodies
The first reptiles appeared back in the Carboniferous period – around 250 million years ago – and in the intervening time, they have experimented with some truly...
Blister Disease
Poor reptile husbandry leads to a lot of problems and a lot of diseases that can be easily preventable. Cleaning your reptile’s enclosure regularly and maintaining it at...
Breeding Your Reptiles
For many reptile enthusiasts to successfully breed from their pets is the ultimate achievement. This is because reptiles often do not adapt well enough to captivity to...
Common Health Problems
A sick pet is always a worry. Fortunately, modern veterinary science has a whole arsenal of products available to help ill reptiles, but as always, the sooner you...
Convergent Evolution Amongst Reptiles
Although the world is a big place, it provides a limited number of different types of habitat and from one side of the globe to the other,...
Five Health Threats You Might Not Know
Reptiles are susceptible to a wide range of diseases – some of them uniquely their own, while the others affect a much wider range of species....
Hibernation and Your Reptiles
Most people think of bears or squirrels when they talk about hibernation but in fact many reptiles hibernate as well – although the process is more correctly called...
How Reptiles Reproduce
Reptilian reproduction forms one of the key turning points in evolution; when the first reptiles broke free from their amphibian ancestors’ dependence on water for...
Keeping Your Reptiles Healthy
Keeping your reptile healthy is one of the key duties of a reptile owner and it can also be one of the most challenging. Reptile health depends on a wide variety of...
Metabolic Bone Disease
Metabolic Bone Disease (MBD) is probably one of the most common illnesses that reptile owners will have to deal with. In a sense it is really an umbrella term for a...
Reptile Mating Rituals
When it comes to mating rituals, reptiles probably aren’t the first group that comes to mind. After all, the spectacular songs and bright plumage of many kinds of...
Reptiles and Shedding Skin
While most people immediately think of reptiles, particularly snakes, when they think of skin-shedding, in actual fact, all animals shed their skin at regular intervals...
Risk of Catching Zoonotic Diseases from Your Reptile
Despite their differences from us, there are several diseases which can be transmitted from reptiles to humans and care must be taken when handling...
The Seven Deadliest Reptiles
Which are the world’s seven deadliest reptiles? A simple enough question, you’d think, but ask 10 different reptile fans for their nominations and the chances of...
The Top Five Destinations for Reptile Watching
Britain’s a great country, but it’s a little short on reptile watching opportunities. There aren’t many native species to begin with, and...
What to do When My Reptile Sheds it's Skin
There are some misconceptions about reptiles and how they shed their skins; the most common of these being that a reptile will shed its skin twice...
