There are so many types of reptiles that come in an incredible variety of shapes, sizes and colors, from worm-sized snakes and tiny turtles to gargantuan crocodiles and giant monitor lizards that ...

Other snakes intercepted since then include Lycodon ... MPI had a specialist herpetologist contracted to Biosecurity New Zealand to identify reptile species and maintain a database of border ...

Ichthyosaurs were reptiles that swam in the seas during the time of the dinosaurs. They evolved separately around 250 million ...

A live python found in an Auckland industrial estate earlier this month was likely a “lone hitch-hiker”, Biosecurity New Zealand has said. It said it found the coastal carpet python from ...

New Zealand, ushers in the New Year as one of the first cities to celebrate, with vibrant fireworks on Auckland's sky tower ...

McDonald said Biosecurity New Zealand took the risk of hitchhiking snakes escaping and surviving very seriously. “This is why we have a multi-layered biosecurity system involving strict import ...