By Herp News SANTA FE, N.M.—An alligator-like scaly reptile found roaming a Santa Fe neighborhood has been sent to a reserve in southern Colorado. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Jul 25
Jul 25
Saskatchewan scientists work to protect rare, blood-squirting lizard
By Herp News Here's something you don't see every day — a lizard that shoots blood out of its eyes. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Efforts renewed to protect lizard that shoots blood from eyes
By Herp News Parks Canada is renewing their efforts to protect the greater short-horned lizard, a small toad-looking animal that is capable of shooting blood from it's eyes. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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How YouTube has put the world’s only poisonous primates at risk
By Herp News It all started with a video: in 2009 a Russian man uploaded a video of himself tickling his exotic pet (a pygmy slow loris) from Vietnam onto the hugely popular site YouTube. Since then the video has been viewed over half a million times. But a new study in the open source […]
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Cheetah don’t overheat during hunts
By Herp News A new study published in Biology Letters finds that contrary to popular opinion, cheetah don’t overheat during hunts. But their body temperature rises after successful hunts due to stress than another predator may seize their prey. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Three Students Receive Tortoise Young Entrepreneurs Scholarships
By Herp News Lars Hanson of Olathe, Kan., Kaitlin Long of Manhattan, Kan. and Clara Porter of Warsaw, Mo. are the recipients of the inaugural Tortoise Young Entrepreneurs Scholarships. The scho Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Rescued Florida sea turtle headed for Las Vegas casino "retirement"
By Herp News MIAMI (Reuters) – An ailing 320-pound, green sea turtle, believed to be about 50 years old, was packed in a customized FedEx crate to be shipped to Las Vegas on Thursday to give it a better home at a luxury casino. The turtle, named OD, after a dive charter boat that rescued […]
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Booming cashmere trade eating up habitat for snow leopards, saiga, and wild yak
By Herp News Snow leopards, wild yaks and other iconic wildlife on the world’s highest mountains and great steppes are becoming “fashion victims” of the surging global trade in cashmere, new research has revealed. Scientists found wildlife being driven to the margins of survival by the “striking but unintended consequences” of huge increases in the […]
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Scientists work to save lizard
From Yahoo News Canada: A group of biologists working in Saskatchewan’s Grasslands National Park are trying to save one of Canada’s rarest and perhaps strangest creatures — the greater short-horned lizard. This lizard, which can be found anywhere between New Mexico and southwestern Alberta, has a rather unique and strange defense mechanism. It shoots its […]
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Scientists work to save
From Yahoo News Canada: A group of biologists working in Saskatchewan’s Grasslands National Park are trying to save one of Canada’s rarest and perhaps strangest creatures — the greater short-horned lizard. This lizard, which can be found anywhere between New Mexico and southwestern Alberta, has a rather unique and strange defense mechanism. It shoots its […]
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