Alligators, crocodiles, turtles, snakes, lizards, salamanders, toads, and frogs - all are cold-blooded animals in the reptile or amphibian family. Packed with engaging articles arranged in alphabetical order, the new six-volume "Exploring the World of Reptiles and Amphibians" set looks at the natural history of reptiles and amphibians through naturalistic artwork, maps, and stunning photography. This colorful set is intended to illustrate key life-science principles while providing thorough information on reptiles and amphibians to young readers.

Reptilians survive from the age of the Saurians, but if many look Ancient that's because their early and sometimes relatively recent adaptations to widely varied conditions worldwide still work admirably. Examples include lizards like the giant Komodo dragon, still top-dog on his Indonesian island, the feared crocodilian hunters, color-changing chameleons and snake species fitted for most (warm) ecosystems. The same goes for amphibians, including numerous specialized (tree) frogs and toads. Both groups are cold-blooded, hence vulnerable while warming up.

The book presents up-to-date information on all the species and subspecies of turtles (7 species), lizards (112 species) and snakes (74 species) inhabiting the territory of North Eurasia. The North Eurasia region is considered as former Soviet Union and Mongolia territories in accordance with the decision of IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) of June 2003. In this richly illustrated book, we tried to reflect the results of new taxonomic and phylogenetic revisions that have not previously been included in herpetological monographs published in Russian and referred to this region. More than 400 color illustrations are included in the atlas (photos of reptiles, habitats and maps).

This is the library of highly-sharpened sound effects. Only effect loops made from one of the six categories "life", "industry", "traffic", "war", "animals", and "nature" can create an incomparable sound. On this CD are sounds from everyday life, sounds from industry, including from factories, to research institutes, and throughout the universe, sounds of land, sea and air vehicles, sounds of war, such as reproductions of weapons firing and of a battlefield, sounds of mammals, reptiles, and insects, and sounds of the natural mysteries of earth.

After the age of dinosaurs Australia was dominated by reptiles rather than the marsupials it is known for. The biggest of them all was a monitor lizard larger than a crocodile called Magalania. This program reviews the anatomical features that make Megalania and its chief competitor, the marsupial lion, apex predators.

Student Tara Shine told yesterday how she became a real-life Indiana Jones when she went hunting a”lost” colony of Crocodiles, thought to have died out when the pharaohs disappeared. The intrepid 28-year-old tracked down the elusive reptiles in the remote African country of Mauritania, where experts said they could not exist.

This lavishly illustrated reference provides a trip through our evolutionary past, as it covers more than 600 extinct species--from predatory dinosaurs, primitive amphibians, and giant armored fish to sabertooths, cave bears, and flying reptiles--all depicted in specially commissioned full-color paintings, based the latest paleontological information.

For decades, Cuba's wild landscapes lay untouched while its neighbors destroyed their ecological riches. Now, Cuba's priceless treasures are about to face an onslaught. Tourism is already on the rise and most experts predict tourism will double once the US trade embargo ends. What will happen to Cuba's stunning biodiversity - an island filled with amphibians, reptiles and the most biologically diverse freshwater fish in the region?

Walking with Monsters is a series about life in the Paleozoic, bringing to life extinct arthropods, fish, amphibians, synapsids, and reptiles. Using state-of-the-art visual effects, this prequel to Walking with Dinosaurs shows how a two-ton predatory fish came on land to hunt.

It was a time of huge “thunder lizards” roaming steamy fern jungles; of “mammal-reptiles” walking the land of Laurasia; of continental movements, mountain building, and massive volcanoes; and a time of the most horrific, earth-shattering extinctions that ever occurred on this planet. It was the middle times of what is called the Phanerozoic Eon, a geologic interval lasting almost a half billion years. It was the time of the dinosaurs…and much, much more. We call this time the Mesozoic Era.

For decades, Cuba's wild landscapes lay untouched while its neighbors destroyed their ecological riches. Now, Cuba's priceless treasures are about to face an onslaught. Tourism is already on the rise and most experts predict tourism will double once the US trade embargo ends. What will happen to Cuba's stunning biodiversity - an island filled with amphibians, reptiles and the most biologically diverse freshwater fish in the region?

In 2009, a group of passionate scientists stumbled upon fossils of the titanoboa - the biggest snake of all time. At 48 feet long and weighing well over a tonne, the snake is one of the greatest discoveries since the T-rex. The animal is a relative of modern boa constrictors and lived in the rainforest of north-east Colombia 58-60 million years ago. The spectacular palaeontological find deep in the Cerrejon coal mines in Colombia has blown the doors off a lost period in prehistory. They had unexpectedly discovered a time after the dinosaurs when the world was once again ruled by super-sized reptiles, battling it out to become the planet's top predators; among them, the gargantuan titanoboa. Using pin-sharp CGI and scintillating cutting-edge science, the programme brings back the real lost world.

In 2009, a group of passionate scientists stumbled upon fossils of the titanoboa - the biggest snake of all time. At 48 feet long and weighing well over a tonne, the snake is one of the greatest discoveries since the T-rex. The animal is a relative of modern boa constrictors and lived in the rainforest of north-east Colombia 58-60 million years ago. The spectacular palaeontological find deep in the Cerrejon coal mines in Colombia has blown the doors off a lost period in prehistory. They had unexpectedly discovered a time after the dinosaurs when the world was once again ruled by super-sized reptiles, battling it out to become the planet's top predators; among them, the gargantuan titanoboa. Using pin-sharp CGI and scintillating cutting-edge science, the programme brings back the real lost world.