By Herp News Researchers have described a previously unknown species of white toothed shrew in the forests of Vietnam. The study was published July 2 in the open access journal ZooKeys. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News It was too little too late for conservation groups that wanted the Bel Air, Maryland, Kiwanis Club to cancel its annual Fourth of July turtle derby last Thursday. According to The Baltimore Sun, the Arizona-based Center for Biological Diversity sent a letter on Friday, June 28, requesting the event be canceled because it posed […]

By Herp News The legacy of the former Borders flagship store continues to be reinvented as new restaurants like Slurping Turtle sign leases to move into the downstairs retail spaces.Tech hub, meet foodie hub. Iron Chef America participant and Chicago-based restaurateur Takashi… Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon […]

By Herp News An anolis lizard. National Geographic/Youtube A 23-million-year-old complete fossil of a lizard was discovered by scientists in Mexico. The fossil contains soft tissues of the new species of the genus Anolis that were preserved in amber. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

Once thought to be extinct, six northern Mexican garter snakes were discovered last month near the Gila River and another three later in the month. From the Denver Post: Doug Hotle, curator of reptiles and amphibians at the BioPark, said one of the snakes found last month was a young female, which indicates the wild […]

By Herp News San Cristobal de las Casas (Mexico), July 8 (IANS/EFE) Mexican scientists are studying a complete fossil of a lizard that lived some 23 million years ago and whose soft tissue remains have been preserved in amber. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News The newest update to the IUCN Red List has downgraded the status of the Yangtze finless porpoise (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis asiaeorientalis) from Endangered to Critically Endangered, reflecting the deteriorating state of arguably the world’s most degraded river system. The downgrade follows a survey last year that counted only 1,000 animals, a 50 percent […]

By Herp News Environmentalist and journalist, George Mobiot, makes a passionate new plea for the controversial idea of rewilding parts of Europe in his new book Feral: Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of Rewilding. Rewildling—a relatively recent idea—entails bringing back some of the animals (especially large ones) lost in parts of the world in […]

By Herp News A complete fossil of a lizard that lived some 23 million years ago has gone on display at museum in Mexico, where it was found several months ago. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Thousands thronged to a huge reptile show being held this weekend at Golden Hall. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Thousands come to a huge reptile show being held this weekend at Golden Hall Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News YOU’VE HEARD of the comeback kid? How about the comeback turtles? In one of the happiest trends of the summer, wildlife experts are reporting a whopping jump in the number of loggerhead sea turtles nesting along the Georgia coast this season. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products […]

By Herp News A three-foot-long lizard has been found abandoned in the toilets of a Scottish Asda store. The female bosc monitor – now aptly named Lulu –… Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News The body of Lonesome George, a century-old giant tortoise believed to be the last of its species, is being prepared for temporary display at a New York City museum this winter. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News For young lizards born into this unpredictable world, their very first meal can be a major life changer. So say researchers who report evidence that this early detail influences how the lizards disperse from their birthplaces, how they grow, and whether they survive. A quick or slow meal even influences the lizards’ […]

By Herp News Recent expeditions by the Chinese Academy of Science’s Institute of Zoology to the Yunnan Province of China have uncovered the existence of a new species of long-horned beetle. This newly discovered beetle has a beautifully colored blue-green body with short, slender, and distinctively blue legs according to a new article in Zookeys. […]

By Herp News A new series of films aims to protect Uganda’s great ape species (mountain gorillas and chimpanzees) by bringing entertaining and educational movies to a rural audience living on the edges of Kibale National Park and Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. Produced with heavy input from locals, these films are acted with an all-Ugandan […]

By Herp News In June, the last known pair of the near-extinct Yangtze giant softshell turtle mated again—and, scientists hope, made babies. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

The city of San Francisco is on the hook for hundreds of thousands of dollars in court-ordered penalties related to destruction of endangered snake and frog species on city-owned land. From SF Weekly: The judgment is a victory for the Wildlife Equity Institute and other environmental organizations, which sued the city in 2011 for violations […]

By Herp News Turtle derbies are almost as old as the republic, and still a staple in Maryland, a state that loves its terrapins. But conservationists and wildlife biologists say it’s time to end this tradition, for the sake of the animals supposedly being celebrated.         Go to Source …read more Read […]

By Herp News July 4 staple said to raise risk of spreading viruses connected to die-offs Turtle derbies are almost as old as the republic, and still a staple in Maryland, a state that loves its terrapins. But conservationists and wildlife biologists say it’s time to end this tradition, for the sake of the animals […]

By Herp News Somewhere in the wet pine forests of Chile, a male frog is gulping-up a bunch of eggs. No he’s not eating them, he’s just being a good dad. Darwin’s frogs are known for their unique parenting-style: tadpoles are incubated in the vocal sac of the father. First recorded by Charles Darwin during […]

By Herp News In another sign of the global biodiversity crisis, the IUCN Red List has added 715 species to its threatened categories of Vulnerable, Endangered, and Critically Endangered in this year’s update. Some of these species were evaluated by the IUCN Red List for the first time while others saw their conditions deteriorate, such […]

By Herp News The world-famous Galapagos tortoise Lonesome George, the last known specimen of his kind, will be preserved by a team of taxidermists in New York, the American Museum of Natural History announced this week. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News SAN DIEGO, July 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – Meet America’s most popular lizard, the leopard gecko, this July at Petco™’s free, family-friendly “Meet the Critters” event, taking place July 6-7, 2013 … Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News The Seafood Watch Program, first created by Monterey Bay Aquarium in the late 1990s, is arguably the best-known guide to sustainably-caught seafood in the U.S. Listing seafood choices in three categories—green (best choices), yellow (good alternatives), and red (avoid)—the guide informs consumers of the best options. However, it’s one thing to create […]

Forget the Texas two-step. A two-headed Texas cooter turtle is the star of the San Antonio Zoo. From Time: The emerald green turtle, which arrived on June 18 and went on display Tuesday, has two noggins conjoined near the neck. Zoo officials named the Texas cooter Thelma and Louise, in tribute to the 1991 movie […]

By Herp News An orangutan in Indonesia’s Aceh province died last Thursday after being beaten by residents of a local village attempting to capture the animal. The case casts a tragic spotlight on what is becoming an increasingly serious problem in the region, as habitat decline and weak law enforcement leave wild orangutans at risk […]

By Herp News Tortoise Energy Independence Fund, Inc. today announced that as of June 30, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $411.8 million and its unaudit Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Tortoise MLP Fund, Inc. today announced that as of June 30, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $2.0 billion and its unaudited net asset value Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Tortoise Power and Energy Infrastructure Fund, Inc. today announced that as of June 30, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $234.7 million and Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Tortoise Pipeline & Energy Fund, Inc. today announced that as of June 30, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $375.5 million and its unaud Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Tortoise North American Energy Corp. today announced that as of June 30, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $262.1 million and its unaudited Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Tortoise Energy Infrastructure Corp. today announced that as of June 30, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $2.1 billion and its unaudited ne Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Tortoise Energy Capital Corp. today announced that as of June 30, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $1.1 billion and its unaudited net asset Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Forensic-dating could end a major loophole in the current global ban on ivory, according to a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Scientists have developed a method to determine the age of ivory, allowing traders to tell the difference between ivory taken before the ban in […]

By Herp News According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, amphibians are the most threatened group of animals on Earth: currently around 30 percent of the world’s amphibians are listed as threatened with extinction. However this percentage doesn’t include those species about which too little is known to evaluate (26 percent). Amphibians face […]

By Herp News A reptile found abandoned in a supermarket toilet may be linked to the dumping of a bearded dragon in the same area two years ago. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News New FWC manatee and sea turtle decals give people another chance to celebrate the 500-year anniversary of Juan Ponce de Leon’s arrival on Florida shores and support conservation of these iconic Florida species. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News SSPCA sleuths are investigating the curious case of the lizard in the loo. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links