By Herp News New Zealand’s Department of Conservation (DOC) is facing a backlash over plans to aerially drop a controversial poison, known as 1080, over the habitat of two endangered, prehistoric, and truly bizarre frog species, Archey’s and Hochsetter’s frogs, on Mount Moehau. Used in New Zealand to kill populations of invasive mammals, such as […]
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Apr 10
Apr 10
Scientists decode genome of painted turtle, revealing clues to extraordinary adaptations
By Herp News ( University of California – Los Angeles ) A UCLA scientist and other researchers who have just sequenced the first turtle genome uncovered clues about how people can benefit from the shelled creatures' remarkable longevity and ability to survive long stretches without oxygen. Understanding the natural mechanisms turtles use to protect the […]
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World's oldest dinosaur embryo bonebed yields organic remains
The great age of the embryos is unusual because almost all known dinosaur embryos are from the Cretaceous Period. The Cretaceous ended some 125 million years after the bones at the Lufeng site were buried and fossilized. Led by University of Toronto Mississauga paleontologist Robert Reisz, an international team of scientists from Canada, Taiwan, the […]
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Sarawak to protect population of rarest orangutan sub-species
By Herp News After facilitating large-scale logging and conversion of large areas of rainforest habitat, the government of Sarawak says it will protect a population of up to 200 of the world’s rarest Bornean orangutans recently identified during field surveys by conservationists, reports the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). Go to Source …read more Read more […]
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Beautiful striped bat is the "find of a lifetime" (photos)
By Herp News Scientists have uncovered a rare, brilliantly-striped bat in the South Sudan that has yielded new secrets after close study. Working in Bangangai Game Reserve during July of last year, biologist DeeAnn Redeer and conservationist Adrian Garsdie with Fauna & Flora International (FFI) came across an unmissable bat, which has been dubbed by […]
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Turtle deaths are a mystery
By Herp News TURTLE deaths at Plane Creek, near Sarina, may not have been caused by polluted water, the Department of Environment and Heritage Protection said. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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