By Herp News The 5-foot-long lizard picked up along the frontage road of IH-35 on Wednesday was reunited with his owner Friday morning. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News A pair of lizards stolen from a NSW Central Coast reptile park last month have been reunited with their keepers. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News In a study of gray tree frogs, researchers discovered that females prefer males whose calls reflect the ability to multitask effectively. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

In the United States, most large scale “rescue” of reptiles means they’re seized from a bad or illegal situation and then killed. That’s been the case in Queensland, Australia, too — but no more. Andrew Powell, Minister for the Environment and Heritage Protection of Queensland, overturned that policy, directing agencies that take in seized reptiles […]

By Herp News Rescuers spot the disoriented, exhausted animal under a building, then gradually guide it back to the water Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News A man is jailed for nine months for stealing a tortoise and a homeless man's mobile phone. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Rescuers spot the disoriented, exhausted animal under a building, then gradually guide it back to the water Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News In a large room that used to house aquatic mammals at the Minnesota Zoo, Erik Runquist holds up a vial and says, “Here are its eggs.” I peer inside and see small specks, pale with a dot of brown at the top; they look like a single grain of cous cous or […]

By Herp News While the olinguito looks like a wild, tree-climbing teddy bear with a cat’s tail, it’s actually the world’s newest mammalian carnivore. The remarkable discovery—the first mammal carnivore uncovered in the Western Hemisphere since the 1970s—was found in the lush cloud forests of the Andes, a biodiverse region home to a wide-range of […]

kingsnake.com is on the road to Daytona! The kingsnake.com Zombiehunter truck is loaded up with “I Brake For Snakes” bumper stickers and RodentPro coupons and is en route to the National Reptile Breeders Expo in Daytona Beach, Florida. To get your free kingsnake.com bumper sticker and RodentPro discount coupon, find us outside the Ocean Center […]

By Herp News Police in Assam have arrested five out of six persons for smuggling the rare Tokay Gecko lizard, thought to cure cancer. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Byline: Local cafe owner Jacci Jourdan and son Hector, who run the Fat Apple Cafe at Porthallow, like to raise money for local charities through a weekly book swap held in their cafe, and recently they presented a cheque to The Lizard lifeboat station. Page Content: These important funds allow the lifeboat […]

Biologists with the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) have suited up the continent’s most endagered toad with a little backpack in an effort to prevent the species from going extinct. The backpack holds a radio transmitter that will be used to track the toads in their range. Photo: US Dept. of the Interior …read […]

By Herp News Posted Aug. 14, 2013, at 11:36 a.m. Last modified Aug. 14, 2013, at 4:36 p.m. Police caught an exotic lizard, identified as a South American Tegu, Tuesday afternoon near the Megunticook River in Camden. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Aug. 15, 2013, 7:25 a.m. Australian Reptile Park keeper Nick Wilson with three baby Tasmanian devils, born at the Devil Ark four months ago. Photo: MAX MASON-HUBERS Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Police in Indonesia’s Aceh province are investigating the killings of three critically endangered Sumatran elephants, as conflicts with humans led to a series of elephant deaths across the province last month. Five elephants have died in Aceh since late June, including two orphaned calves, highlighting the need to mitigate conflicts between elephants […]

By Herp News In 1985, Li Hua visited a valley in the foothills of the Tibetan plateau. The area was better known for its panda population, but the oenologist realized that its high altitude, hours of sunshine, sandy soil and low precipitation also offered ideal conditions for growing grapes. Go to Source …read more Read […]

By Herp News My list includes a reptile expo at the Holiday Inn, movies at the library and in Memorial Park, a history program at McMenamins, and activities for the 55-and-older crowd at the community center. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

It turns out well-managed golf courses are better turtle habitat than some farms and parks. At least, that’s the word from National Geographic, not normally prone to pro-golf hysteria. (If golf can be said to inspire anything like hysteria even among its devotees.) In “Turtles Flourishing in Golf Course Ponds,” NatGeo reports on two studies […]

By Herp News Primatologists and researchers have devised a wide-ranging plan to protect Madagascar’s most endangered lemurs from extinction. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News A photo taken by a Brooklyn resident shows a roughly three-foot lizard in the backyard. It may be a monitor lizard, but animal experts have not been able to see it in the flesh to identify it. It showed up in the backyard of a townhouse on Osborne Street. Go to Source […]

By Herp News In another sign that the rhino poaching crisis has gone out-of-control, Kenyan officials announced late last night that a pregnant rhino was poached in Nairobi National Park, which sits on the edge of Kenya’s capital. Home to lions, leopard, giraffes and hippos in addition to rhinos, the park is known for its […]

By Herp News The world’s species are in worse trouble than widely-assumed, according to a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), which reevaluates how scientists estimate extinction rates. The new model takes into account the impact of forest fragmentation on extinction rates for the first time, filling in a […]

By Herp News Irvine, California based Premier Business Centers , the largest privately owned executive suite and alternative workspace operation, has entered into a Lease Agreement with the TC PROPCO II, LP to operate an executive suite in the Two Turtle Creek Village. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. […]

A Florida police officer saw some baby sea turtles in trouble, and decided to give them a hand. From Yahoo News: Sarasota Officer Derek Conley was on patrol at 1 a.m. Saturday when he saw sea turtle hatchlings crawling toward the front door of the Lido Beach Resort. A passerby also told Conley that several […]

By Herp News A regular attraction at Charlottetown's Old Home Week is the source of extra discussion this year following a tragedy that saw two boys killed by an African rock python in New Brunswick. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Authorities have drained a lake in southern Germany to search for a turtle, after an eight-year-old boy's ankle was bitten while he was swimming last week. The boy's Achilles tendon was cut through twice, and the risk of another attack has made the search urgent. Go to Source …read more Read more […]

By Herp News On 8/13/13, Tortoise Energy Capital Fund's 3.95% Series C Mandatory Redeemable Preferred Shares (NYSE: TYY.PRC) will trade ex-dividend, for its monthly dividend of $0.0329, payable on 9/3/13. As a percentage of TYY.PRC's recent share price of $10.18, this dividend works out to approximately 0.32%. On an annualized basis, the current yield is […]

By Herp News Flying Lizard Motorsports won today's Orion Energy Systems 245 at Road America with its No 45 Venezuela / eSilicon Porsche 911 GT3 Cup car, driven by Spencer Pumpelly and Nelson Canache Jr., with Dion von Moltke and Seth Neiman bringing the sister PR Newswire / eSilicon No 44 home in 5th place. […]

By Herp News Around twelve thousand of years ago, the Amazon was home to a menagerie of giant creatures: the heavily armored glyptodons, the elephant-sized ground sloth, and the rhino-like toxodons among others. But by 10,000 B.C. these monsters were largely gone, possibly due to overhunting by humans or climatic changes. There’s no question that […]

By Herp News Researchers have decoded a previously unknown molecular mechanism in the fertilization process of vertebrates. The team of scientists have identified a specific protein in frog egg extracts that the male basal bodies need, but that is produced only by the reproductive cells of the female. This “teamwork” between the egg and sperm […]

By Herp News Scientists have completed the genome sequencing and analysis of the endangered Chinese alligator (Alligator sinensis). This is the first published crocodilian genome, providing a good explanation of how terrestrial-style reptiles adapt to aquatic environments and temperature-dependent sex determination. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto […]

By Herp News TRIPLETT, N.C. (AP) — The way Eustace Conway sees it, there's the natural world, as exemplified by his Turtle Island Preserve in the Blue Ridge Mountains. And then there's the “plastic, imitation” world that most other humans inhabit. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto […]

By Herp News IN THE PUBLIC EYE: Eagle Vines Vineyards and Golf Club in American Canyon, Calif. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Landlocked in the navel of South America, the forests, wetlands and savannahs of Paraguay boast rich biodiversity and endemic species, yet the unique landscapes of Paraguay also face increasing threats, primarily from agricultural expansion. Controlled burns and clear cutting have become common practice as wildlands are converted for soy and cattle production. […]

By Herp News Germans have drained a lake in a determined search for a turtle blamed for an attack on a young swimmer. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News • Click here for step by step directions • Click here for our interactive map of all the walks Distance 7 miles (11km) Classification Moderate Duration 3 hours Begins Kynance Cove OS grid reference SW6813 Walk in a nutshell A rangy circuit resembling the outline of a bat that will take you […]

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By Herp News By Samantha Allen sallen@lowellsun.com CHELMSFORD — Fire officials say a home on High Street was unoccupied at the time a fire started on the second floor, where five pets were rescued. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News A reptile park that is the only facility in Australia to milk the funnel-web spiders for venom normally has a lull in winter. But the poisonous arachnids are coming steadily through the door.         Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links