A fossil stored unnoticed in a museum may hold the secret to a question that’s plagued scientists for decades: How did the turtle get his shell? From Boston.com: It’s a question so obvious a schoolchild can ask it, but for more than a century, consensus has eluded the paleontologists and evolutionary biologists who study the […]

By Herp News A lizard from the Caribbean is found alive at a Devon farm in a box of bananas imported from the Dominican Republic. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

It was a long hard day in the house cleaning and cleaning. And cleaning. Cleaning. You get the picture. And I did two loads of laundry. That’s enough. I go into the kitchen and grab a carrot so I can have a leisurely visit with my favorite shelled wonder: Frankie. Right off I see him […]

By Herp News Scientists have shown the adverse impact of invasive frog species’ songs. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Abbotsford's Reptile Guy Mike Hopcraft shows off an invasive turtle, the red eared slider, that's putting serious pressure on the endangered native species at Mill Lake. The sliders, tossed into the lake as unwanted pets, are competing with the western painted turtle for food, nesting space and habitat. Go to Source …read […]

By Herp News Abbotsford's Reptile Guy Mike Hopcraft shows off an invasive turtle, the red eared slider, that's putting serious pressure on the endangered native species at Mill Lake. The sliders, tossed into the lake as unwanted pets, are competing with the western painted turtle for food, nesting space and habitat. Go to Source …read […]

By Herp News How did the turtle get its shell? It’s a question so obvious a schoolchild can ask it, but for more than a century, consensus has eluded the scientists who study the reptiles and their bony carapaces.         Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. […]

By Herp News How did the turtle get its shell? It’s a question so obvious a schoolchild can ask it, but for more than a century, consensus has eluded the scientists who study the reptiles and their bony carapaces.         Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. […]

By Herp News How did the turtle get its shell? It’s a question so obvious a schoolchild can ask it, but for more than a century, consensus has eluded the scientists who study the reptiles and their bony carapaces.         Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. […]

By Herp News Through careful study of an ancient ancestor of modern turtles, researchers now have a clearer picture of how the turtles' most unusual shell came to be. The findings help to fill a 30- to 55-million-year gap in the turtle fossil record through study of an extinct South African reptile known as Eunotosaurus. […]

By Herp News Through careful study of an ancient ancestor of modern turtles, researchers now have a clearer picture of how the turtles' most unusual shell came to be. The findings help to fill a 30- to 55-million-year gap in the turtle fossil record through study of an extinct South African reptile known as Eunotosaurus. […]

By Herp News Mike Hopcraft says red-eared slider turtles are being released into the wild, damaging ecosystems Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Mike Hopcraft says red-eared slider turtles are being released into the wild, damaging ecosystems Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Unique among Earth’s creatures, turtles are the only animals to form a shell on the outside of their bodies through a fusion of modified ribs, vertebrae and shoulder girdle bones. The turtle shell is a unique modification, and how and when it originated has fascinated and confounded biologists for more than two […]

By Herp News Through careful study of an ancient ancestor of modern turtles, researchers now have a clearer picture of how the turtles’ most unusual shell came to be. The findings help to fill a 30- to 55-million-year gap in the turtle fossil record through study of an extinct South African reptile known as Eunotosaurus. […]

By Herp News A blogger claims to have spotted a lizard in a photograph of Mars. While studying a picture of the Red Planet taken by the Curiosity… Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News The turtle has been in no rush to give up the secret of its shell but new research led by Yale's Tyler Lyson sheds light on a structure unique in the history of life. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News If you fly over the Great African Rift Valley from its northernmost point in Ethiopia, over the great national parks of Kenya and Tanzania, and follow it south to the very end, you will arrive at Gorongosa National Park in central Mozambique. Plateaus on the eastern and western sides of the park […]

By Herp News If you fly over the Great African Rift Valley from its northernmost point in Ethiopia, over the great national parks of Kenya and Tanzania, and follow it south to the very end, you will arrive at Gorongosa National Park in central Mozambique. Plateaus on the eastern and western sides of the park […]

By Herp News By Bolaji Eletta, PhD The opposition players and activists in Nigeria are campaigning for GEJ! If my permutations on the workings of the heart of the average Nigerian is right (I have not been wrong on too many occasions), I can authoritatively declare that Goodluck Jonathan will remain President of the Republic […]

By Herp News JACKSONVILLE, Fla.– A giant reptile was spotted in an Arlington neighborhood Tuesday evening. It took some collaboration to get it to shelter, but the question now is: where did it… Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News We got modest final Q1 GDP data (the Turtle) and weaker fresh weekly claims data (the Hare). Does this stop the Taper Sooner crowd in its tracks? Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

I derive great pleasure from feeding wild birds. The squirrel-proof hanging feeder has been in the same place in a tall crepe myrtle shrub outside my office window for years, and many common and a few uncommon birds visit it daily or occasionally. One day, a couple of years ago, I swiveled my chair to […]

By Herp News Phoenix Mercury center Brittney Griner (42) celebrates after dunking the ball during the second half against the Chicago Sky at US Airways Center. / Casey Sapio, USA TODAY Sports Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Phoenix Mercury center Brittney Griner (42) celebrates after dunking the ball during the second half against the Chicago Sky at US Airways Center. / Casey Sapio, USA TODAY Sports Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News A blogger claims to have spotted a lizard in a photograph of Mars. While studying a picture of the Red Planet taken by the Curiosity… Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

We actually found some good news about amphibians. No, really. From the Vancouver, Canada, Globe and Mail: Scientists at the Vancouver Aquarium have sprung into action, as part of an effort to prevent an endangered frog population from becoming extinct in eastern British Columbia. The Rocky Mountain population of northern leopard frogs plummeted by the […]

By Herp News A science blogger with a keen sense of vision claims to have spotted a lizard meandering around Mars. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News A science blogger with a keen sense of vision claims to have spotted a lizard meandering around Mars. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News PALM BEACH, Fla. — Rescue workers found a loggerhead turtle stuck in between the rocks on Palm Beach Island. The 200 pound turtle was found on the northern end at the Palm Beach Inlet at the Jetty. Palm Beach Fire Rescue was called in to free the trapped animal. … Go to […]

By Herp News Scientists have recently taken rare and incredible footage of a giant anteater with a camera trap in the Barba Azul Nature Reserve of Bolivia. This footage captures a giant anteater wallowing in a pit of mud. The animal lies down, rolling around and scratching itself, for a period of, what seems to […]

With each passing year, as the various exporting countries close or open their seasons and/or shipping quotas the herps we see in the pet trade change. Availability of some changes from abundance to rarity, of others from rarity to abundance. Two examples are the Colombian horned frog, Ceratophrys calcarata, and wild caught examples of the […]

By Herp News The Russian Far East is one of the wildest places on Earth: where giant tigers roam snow-covered forests and the world’s biggest owls stalk frozen rivers. Bordering northern China and North Korea, the forests of Primorye are known for the diversity of habitats, including coastal forests along the Sea of Japan, vast […]

After treatment at Marathon’s Turtle Hospital for digestive tract impaction, a loggerhead sea turtle was returned to the ocean off of the Florida Keys on Friday. From Nature World News: The roughly 6-pound, foot-long animal nicknamed “Charley” was first located by a fisherman who spotted it floating in a patch of weeds 22 miles off […]

By Herp News Over the past 30 years, amphibians worldwide have been infected with a lethal skin disease known as the amphibian chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis). “The disease can cause rapid mortality, with infected frogs of susceptible species dying within weeks of infection in the laboratory.” Jodi Rowley, a herpetologist with the Australian Museum told […]

By Herp News A new consensus statement by 520 scientists from around the world warns that global environmental harm is putting at risk the happiness and well-being of this and future generations. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News A tortoise emerged triumphant from one of Oxford’s weird and wonderful traditions over the weekend. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News In this installment of Zoo Spotlight, Menominee Park Zoo staff introduces us to Dash, an African Spurred Tortoise. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

Check out this video “Corn Snake Morphs,” submitted by kingsnake.com user boa2cobras. Submit your own reptile & amphibian videos at http://www.kingsnake.com/video/ and you could see them featured here or check out all the videos submitted by other users! …read more Read more here: King Snake No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Tiny turtle Leroy was rescued by a fisherman in the Great Barrier Reef, suffering from floating syndrome. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links