By Herp News Turtle Wireless LLC, a wholesale and retail cell phone accessory distributor based in Dallas, Texas is proud to announce a new management/ownership team consisting of Jeremy Schrader and Samin Odhwani. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News What do you do when you’re smuggling 22,000 pounds of an endangered species on your boat? Answer: crash into a protected coral reef in the Philippines. Last Monday a Chinese vessel slammed into a coral reef in the Tubbataha National Marine Park; on Saturday the Filipino coastguard discovered 400 boxes of pangolin […]

By Herp News The biodiversity of Europe today is largely linked to environmental conditions decades ago, according to a new large-scale study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Looking at various social and economic conditions from the last hundred years, scientists found that today’s European species were closely aligned to environmental […]

By Herp News How many animal individuals are needed to ensure a species isn’t doomed to extinction even with our best conservation efforts? While no one knows exactly, scientists have created complex models to attempt an answer. They call this important threshold the “minimum viable population” and have spilled plenty of ink trying to decipher […]

By Herp News Rising Dane… For too long a lesser heralded area of Scandinavia's musical landscape, Denmark has come to the fore with a series of fantastic new exports. The past few months have brought us the debut album from Indians, while the likes of The Choir Of Young Believers and the Crunchy Frog collective […]

By Herp News Fishing is not a woman’s domain in most countries across the globe. In parts of India there are fishing communities who believe that having a woman onboard a fishing boat brings bad luck. Despite this, Divya Karnad, a scientist who studies marine life in India, has spent several years studying fisheries and […]

By Herp News A new species of forcepfly named Austromerope brasiliensis, was recently discovered in Brazil and described in the open access journal Zoo Keys. This is the first discovery of forcepfly in the Neotropics and only the third known worldwide. The forcepfly, often called the earwigfly because the male genital forceps closely resemble the […]

By Herp News A tortoise that vanished 10 months ago has been found alive after being dug up from its garden by a JCB.         Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Some researchers and conservationists are urging the state Department of Natural Resources to reconsider its plan to remove the Blanding’s turtle — whose numbers the agency admits are declining — from the state endangered species list. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

Biologist Tyrone Hayes and his team at UC Berkeley have linked to exposure to the pesticide atrazine to cancer, hormonal disruption, and reproductive failure in frogs and rodents. From The Eastern Progress: During [a] trip to Africa, Hayes noticed that one species of frogs characterized by a distinct difference in color between male and female […]