By Herp News They evolve slowly, live to an advanced age, reproduce in old age and can survive freezing without damaging tissue. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Scientists in Brazil have described a new species of tree-dwelling porcupine in the country’s most endangered ecosystems. The description is published in last week’s issue of Zootaxa. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Scientists in Brazil have described a new species of tree-dwelling porcupine in the country’s most endangered ecosystems. The description is published in last week’s issue of Zootaxa. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

By Herp News Byline: The Lizard RNLI launch to channel collision Page Content: The Lizard RNLI lifeboat was launched at lunchtime today, Wednesday 18 March 2009) to assist a French yacht, feared sinking following a collision with a merchant vessel. Fortunately the incident was not as critical as first thought and the lifeboat was soon […]

Frankie hates baths. I didn’t realize he hated baths. I thought he loved them. Frankie needed a bath for Walk for Autism. That’s what Greg told me: “Frankie stinks. He stinks bad! Maybe you don’t think he stinks but he does.” Beaten by Keeper’s Nose again! I can’t tell Frankie stinks. Sure his shell and […]

By Herp News In the remote Russian far east, amid pine forests and long winters, a great cat may be beginning to make a recovery. A new survey estimates that the Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis) population has risen to as many as 50 individuals. While this may not sound like much, it’s a far […]

Seems unborn lizards are not helpless when predators threaten. From ScienceNOW: Talk about hatching an escape plan. Unborn lizards can erupt from their eggs days early if vibrations hint at a threat from a hungry predator, new research shows. The premature hatchlings literally “hit the ground running—they hatch and launch into a sprint at the […]

By Herp News No need to alert animal rights groups, Redneck turtle burgers are not made from turtles. So relax. Instead, turtle burgers are crafted from the three greatest meats known to man, ground beef, bacon and hot dogs. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News It's been a long, long winter Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

It started in still-frigid New England, hit half a dozen aquariums on the way, and ended up on the beaches of Jacksonville, Florida, carrying 52 cold-stunned sea turtles back to warmer climes after a period of rehabilitation at each aquarium. It was dubbed the Great Sea Turtle Trek. From the National Aquarium’s WATERblog: The #SeaTurtleTrek […]

By Herp News A small, boneless creature, that lives underground, with a “hundred” legs, and a rather powerful sting; some of these creatures are drab, but some are so beautiful and brightly colored that they can startle. Centipedes. There is more to a centipede than its many legs, and its habit of darting out of […]

By Herp News WWF-Indonesia had considered the impact of the publication of finding traces of Sumatran rhinos in Kalimantan. In the two-month period before it was published, WWF-Indonesia had coordinated with various parties, including the local government, the Forestry Ministry, rhino experts, local university and other related parties to set up strategies and to ensure […]

By Herp News In less than 40 years, drinking wine could have a major toll on the environment and wildlife, according to a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The study finds that climate change will likely force many vineyards to move either north or to higher altitudes, leading […]

By Herp News Less than 100 Sumatran rhinos survive in the world today, according to a bleak new population estimate by experts. The last survey in 2008 estimated that around 250 Sumatran rhinos survived, but that estimate now appears optimistic and has been slashed by 60 percent. However conservationists are responding with a major new […]

By Herp News Brevard Zoo has been awarded a $39,800 grant to open a new Sea Turtle Hospital that will treat sick and injured endangered sea turtles . Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News A newly-hatched western pond turtle is small enough to be eaten by a bullfrong, one of many perils it faces. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Brevard Zoo has been awarded a $39,800 grant to open a new Sea Turtle Hospital that will treat sick and injured endangered sea turtles . Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News The black-and-brown reticulated boa constrictor slithered from one of Eric Sheets’ arms to the other while his children, Mackenzie, 15, and Evan, 19, oohed and aahed over the black Eastern Kingsnake their dad just bought for $100. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

I had Tilly my turtle outside sun bathing today in a gaint pond insert and the dog was chained up and i didn’t relize that she could get to it. But some how my dog got the turtle out of the pond insert.Tilly is doing just fine i think. He is eating and acting normal […]

By Herp News redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports – Your Universe Online Researchers at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Dresden have discovered that a freshwater turtle species declared extinct has not died out as experts had previously believed – in truth, it never existed. The Seychelles mud turtle Pelusios seychellensis was originally described in 1906 […]

Hello, and thanks for reading!This is Yertle, in which I don’t have anymore. I have one three-toed box turtle named Mack. When I got her I didn’t know how to tell apart genders, so that explains her boy’s name. I had wanted a turtle really badly and I finally did for my birthday and he […]

By Herp News Judah DuBois, 4, left, and Chavy DuBois, 6, right, pet a crested gecko during the reptile exhibit at the World of Wonders Science Museum Saturday afternoon. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Judah DuBois, 4, pets a crested gecko during the reptile exhibit at the World of Wonders Science Museum Saturday afternoon. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Chase Guin, 8, pets a Columbian tego that Don McLeister is holding. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News A new sea turtle hospital has just been announced for Brevard County. Right now several injured or Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News An exotic lizard that can grow up to four feet long has been spotted just outside of Winter Haven. T Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News The annual Reptile Roundup is slithering into World of Wonders Science Museum today from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The WOW Museum is teaming up with local reptile stores and museums to offer a hands-on day of fun with live reptiles . Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No […]

By Herp News DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — An African leopard tortoise thought to be stolen from an Iowa museum was actually trapped behind paneling in her enclosure, and a misguided employee who found her lied to keep up the story about her theft, the museum announced Friday. Go to Source …read more Read more here: […]

By Herp News An eastern Iowa tortoise originally thought to be stolen – then returned – was only hiding. Officials at the National… Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

Scientists continue to study the genome of the painted turtle, seeking clues in its amazing ability to survive and thrive in difficult environmental conditions that might help human victims of stroke, heart attack, and hypothermia. From 680News.com: The shelled reptile, named for the bright yellow stripes that adorn its body, is a fresh water species […]

By Herp News Scientists have decoded the genome of the western painted turtle, one of the most abundant turtles on Earth, finding clues to their longevity and ability to survive without oxygen during long winters spent hibernating in ice-covered ponds. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

The disastrous ExxonMobil oil spill in an Arkansas residential neighborhood is threatening reptiles and other local wildlife. From The NY Daily News: The evacuation of almost two dozen homes after an oil pipeline ruptured in Arkansas has left an eerie sight in one neighborhood — and many unanswered questions. “That neighborhood was like a scene […]

By Herp News A Seychelles freshwater turtle species declared extinct after decades of futile searches, in fact never existed, scientists said Thursday. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Last Saturday, an oil pipeline carrying tar sands oil from Canada ruptured in Mayflower, Arkansas spilling between 3,500-5,000 barrels of crude (at most 210,000 gallons) into neighborhood streets and lawns. Families from 22 homes have been evacuated while clean-up crews have scrambled to contain the spill. ExxonMobil, which runs the 65-year-old Pegasus […]