By Herp News Rio de Janeiro, May 27 (IANS/EFE) A pre-historic tortoise that lived in the Brazilian Amazon is the most likely ancestor of the tortoises that live in Ecuador's Galapagos archipelago today, paleontologists said. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News One of our photographers was shooting video of a couch floating in the floodwaters. When he zoomed in, he spotted a lizard and some of the biggest coach roaches we’ve… Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News A Columbia restaurant chain has a $1,5000 penalty for employees not being paid for hours worked. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

Thomas Cobb’s snakes: Many of us have followed the Thomas Cobb situation in Utah in which Cobb was unaware of a city ordinance requiring a permit to keep exotic animals. The language of the ordinance was ambiguous, and although some citizens wanted officials to enforce that Cobb only be allowed one pet, Cobb prevailed and […]

Supermodel Cara Delevingne was quite the herp-loving little girl, reports heatworld.com. Cara then: Cara now: Whether you grow up to strut the runway, crack genetic codes, or rule the world, just keep on herpin’, little girls! …read more Read more here: King Snake No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News What started out as a small reptile rescue run out of a local couple’s home has bloomed into the Great Lakes Zoological Society’s “World of Discovery” center, an indoor amphibian and reptile zoo of about 100 animals, located just west of Ann Arbor. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com […]

By Herp News Parliament welcomed a surprise visitor yesterday _ a two-metre-long monitor lizard that made its home in an air duct. Officials were alerted to the reptile's presence by a member of the press who spotted it through a metal grille in the ceiling. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No […]

By Herp News VALHALLA, N.Y., May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ –  Turtle Beach is excited to announce that it is working with Microsoft to develop market-leading audio solutions for Xbox One. The two companies will leverage … Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Sea turtle nest No. 1 was found this week in Seagrove by Ann Stuart. It is a Loggerhead. Published: Thursday, May 23, 2013 at 13:20 PM. The turtles are back. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Brett Smith for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online If you see a turtle crossing a busy road – pick it up and send it in the direction it was originally going on the other side of the road, advises the advocacy group American Tortoise Rescue (ATR), which is celebrating their 13th annual […]

By Herp News Parliament welcomed a surprise visitor yesterday _ a two-metre-long monitor lizard that made its home in an air duct. Officials were alerted to the reptile's presence by a member of the press who spotted it through a metal grille in the ceiling. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No […]

By Herp News What started out as a small reptile rescue run out of a local couple’s home has bloomed into the Great Lakes Zoological Society’s “World of Discovery” center, an indoor amphibian and reptile zoo of about 100 animals, located just west of Ann Arbor. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com […]

The late spring sun shown brightly and the woodlands were verdant with newly greened leaves. Crows cawed over head and a broad-winged hawk circled lazily. I was clambering over some sizable tumbled boulders. To my left was a roller coaster that, come sundown, would be zipping boisterous, screaming, throngs up and down inclines that I […]

In a nice change of pace from news of species and habitat loss worldwide, meet the ten newly identified species scientists have selected as the best and most interesting of last year — including a new snake and a new frog. From Science Daily: An amazing glow-in-the-dark cockroach, a harp-shaped carnivorous sponge and the smallest […]

By Herp News All rights reserved . Credit: Hilton/Greenpeace An Olive Ridley turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) swims in the open blue ocean of the Pacific. Image caption:  An Olive Ridley turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) swims in the open blue ocean of the Pacific. When I heard it was World Turtle Day , I hatched a plan. I […]

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

By Herp News What started out as a small reptile rescue run out of a local couple’s home has bloomed into the Great Lakes Zoological Society’s “World of Discovery” center, an indoor amphibian and reptile zoo of about 100 animals, located just west of Ann Arbor. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com […]

By Herp News LUCKY turtle Leroy, who almost died from floating syndrome, will be on display in a far north Queensland aquarium for World Turtle Day. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News An amazing glow-in-the-dark cockroach, a harp-shaped carnivorous sponge and the smallest vertebrate on Earth are just three of the newly discovered top 10 species selected by a global committee of taxonomists. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News An amazing glow-in-the-dark cockroach, a harp-shaped carnivorous sponge and the smallest vertebrate on Earth are just three of the newly discovered top 10 species selected by a global committee of taxonomists. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Famed anthropologist and conservationist Richard Leakey has proposed a possible solution to the hugely controversial Serengeti road: build an elevated highway. Leakey made the remarks during a conference at Rutgers University on May 14th, as reported by Live Science. The Tanzanian government’s plans to build a road through the remote, northern Serengeti […]

By Herp News TWO fire crews were called to a flat in Taunton this evening (May 21) after a fire broke out in a reptile tank. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News The first sea turtle nest of the season in Horry County has been reported on the beach near 69 th Avenue North. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News What started out as a small reptile rescue run out of a local couple’s home has bloomed into the Great Lakes Zoological Society’s “World of Discovery” center, an indoor amphibian and reptile zoo of about 100 animals, located just west of Ann Arbor. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com […]

By Herp News A two-metre monitor lizard was found crawling through air ducts in the ceiling inside Government House building on Wednesday morning, reports said. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News A two-metre monitor lizard was found crawling through air ducts in the ceiling of the parliament building on Wednesday morning, reports said. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News A migratory shorebird that has flown more than 400,000 miles has reappeared once again. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Drawing from her personal experience as a primate educator and the challenges she saw others facing, Amy Clanin envisioned a network that would advance the field of primate conservation education by addressing three needs of educators: connections, resources, and services. It was this vision that led her to create the Primate Education […]

For a little over two years in the 1970s, Patti and I left Florida and spent three years in Massachusetts. During that time the venerable Massachusetts Herpetological Society was active and well, and the monthly meetings were a joy to attend. At the society meetings I met Tom Tyning, a herpetologist who is now a […]

A just-published map of the world’s most endangered species of mammals and amphibians shows that very little of the habitat critical to these species’ survival is being protected. From the BBC: Amphibians are suffering a “terrifying” rate of extinction say the researchers, making them the most threatened vertebrates in the world. The Mexican salamander or […]

By Herp News What started out as a small reptile rescue run out of a local couple’s home has bloomed into the Great Lakes Zoological Society’s “World of Discovery” center, an indoor amphibian and reptile zoo of about 100 animals, located just west of Ann Arbor. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com […]

Scientists studying a fossil fond in Iraq in the 1950s were surprised to find it was that of a marine reptile dating back 66 million years, long after the time this group of animals was thought to have become extinct. From Science Live: Ichythyosaurs were dolphin-shaped swimming reptiles that gave birth to live young. They […]

By Herp News What started out as a small reptile rescue run out of a local couple’s home has bloomed into the Great Lakes Zoological Society’s “World of Discovery” center, an indoor amphibian and reptile zoo of about 100 animals, located just west of Ann Arbor. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com […]

By Herp News Besides being beautiful, Costa Rica's beaches are the nesting sites of four endangered sea turtle species, which return each year to lay their eggs. But there is trouble in paradise for these reptiles, namely, from egg thieves. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Washington, May 20 : A Russian capsule, which had mice and lizards as its occupants, returned to Earth on Sunday after spending a month in space. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Besides being beautiful, Costa Rica's beaches are the nesting sites of four endangered sea turtle species, which return each year to lay their eggs. But there is trouble in paradise for these reptiles, namely, from egg thieves. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Many people still believe the Tasmanian tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus) survives in the wilds of Tasmania, even though the species was declared extinct over eighty years ago. Sightings and reports of the elusive carnivorous marsupial, which was the top predator on the island, pop-up almost as frequently as those of Bigfoot in North […]

By Herp News What lures a lady frog to her lover? Good looks, the sound of his voice, the size of his pad or none of the above? After weighing up their options, female strawberry poison frogs (Oophaga pumilio) bag the closest crooner they can. This seemingly short-sighted strategy turns out to be the optimal […]

By Herp News Tortoise Pipeline & Energy Fund, Inc. ( TTP ) will begin trading ex-dividend on May 21, 2013. A cash dividend payment of $0.4075 per share is scheduled to be paid on June 03, 2013. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Tortoise Energy Infrastructure Corporation ( TYG ) will begin trading ex-dividend on May 21, 2013. A cash dividend payment of $0.57 per share is scheduled to be paid on June 03, 2013. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links