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

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

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

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

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 P REPARE yourselves for another onslaught of Turtle Mania. Filming is right now underway for a new movie on the four wise-cracking, pizza-eating mutants who are sworn to defeat the forces of evil from their sewer hideout in New York. The Ninja Turtles – katana-wielding Leonardo, free-spirited nunchaku master Michelangelo, technological genius […]

By Herp News Revered by the Vietnamese, the creature has been made ill by pollution, but Hanoians are now struggling to clean its lake Hundreds of people are working round the clock to clean up a lake in the heart of Vietnam's capital in hopes of saving a rare, ailing giant turtle that is considered […]

By Herp News REDLANDS — The California Turtle and Tortoise Club of the Inland Empire held its annual Turtle and Tortoise Show on Saturday at the Redlands Senior Center. Live exhibits, educational displays and turtle and tortoise adoptions were highlights. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

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 Does size matter? When referring to primate brain size and its relation to social intelligence, scientists at Duke University do not think the answer is a simple yes or no. In the past, scientists have correlated large brain size to large group size. However, in a new study published in PLoS ONE, […]

By Herp News The African rock python that killed two boys in Campbellton on Monday was not the only banned species at Reptile Ocean, officials say. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

Snowmelt is decreasing all over the United States, putting human endeavors and wildlife survival in jeopardy. One victim of climate change is the Cascades frog, a denizen of the mountains of the Pacifc Northwest known for his distinctive “chuckle.” From NPR: In Washington’s Olympic Mountains things are looking dryer than normal. On a recent day, […]

By Herp News The pet store Reptile Ocean in Campbellton, N.B., where two young boys were killed by a python snake as they slept in the apartment above. (CP) Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Florida police officer rescues hatchling sea turtles at resort         Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Homer, a turtle found off Greece after being deliberately blinded, will live out his days in a Newquay aquarium A loggerhead turtle that had its eyes gouged out, probably by a Greek fisherman to protect fishing nets, was today starting a new life at a Cornish aquarium. The large male turtle, called […]

By Herp News About 15 animals will be seized from the Reptile Ocean building in Campbellton where two boys died Monday after apparently being strangled by a python that escaped an enclosure. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Jean-Claude Savoie, the owner of the python that the RCMP says killed two boys in northern New Brunswick earlier this week, did government officials a favour by taking in the animal and several others, a former employee told Global News. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. […]

By Herp News Certain closed-end funds managed by Tortoise Capital Advisors declared the following distributions today: Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News A biological survey of forests slated for destruction for a palm oil project in Cameroon has uncovered 23 species of large mammals, including the world’s most endangered chimpanzee subspecies, the Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes ellioti). The project in question, operated by U.S.-based company Herakles Farms, has come under stiff criticism both locally […]

By Herp News The New Brunswick Department of Natural Resources has obtained a warrant to search the Reptile Ocean building in Campbellton where two boys died Monday after apparently being strangled by a python that escaped an enclosure. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News About 15 animals will be seized from the Reptile Ocean building in Campbellton where two boys died Monday after apparently being strangled by a python that escaped an enclosure. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

In yet more news about just why rattlesnakes are so vital to our ecology, the “magazine of the west,” Cowboys and Indians, tries to explain why human fear and persecution of these animals are so misguided: While it’s not especially natural to empathize with beady-eyed creatures that have been demonized throughout history and rounded up […]

By Herp News Organization has advocated that large constricting snakes be banned as pets for safety reasons, because they can carry disease and because they are stripped from their own habitat Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News It wasn't your garden-variety New Mexico lizard that Thomas Sullivan found hiding in the bushes. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — A Florida police officer saved nearly 100 baby sea turtles when he gathered the newly hatched creatures from a hotel parking lot and street and released them into the Gulf of Mexico. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Aug. 6, 2013: A Royal Canadian Mounted Police cruiser sits outside the Reptile Ocean exotic pet store in Campbellton, New Brunswick, Canada. AP/The Canadian Press Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

Hate ticks? Hate Lyme disease? Then embrace the rattlesnake. Researchers at the University of Maryland discovered that the Eastern timber rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus, keeps the ticks that cause Lyme disease in check by eating the rodents they’re attached to. From the UMD release: Human cases of Lyme disease, a bacterial illness that can cause serious […]

By Herp News The bushmeat markets of Lao PDR (Laos) are filled with racks of wild game harvested both legally and illegally from the surrounding landscapes. While these meat markets certainly provide local protein to patrons, for wildlife biologists they offer something more. These bizarre zoological exhibits are a rich source of information about wildlife […]

By Herp News The death of two young children who died after a large python escaped from a pet store has prompted shock and outrage across the country, from people who wonder how a creature could have been allowed to inflict such tragedy. … Continue reading → Go to Source …read more Read more here: […]

By Herp News Police in Canada are looking into the deaths of two young boys who appear to have been strangled by an exotic snake. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Parametric Sound Corporation , a leading innovator of audio products and solutions, today announced that a joint presentation describing the pending merger with Turtle Beach is available on the Company's … Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

Pet owners never like to leave their pets behind when they travel — but only the obsessed few try to smuggle them onto an airplane disguised as a hamburger. From the South China Morning Post News: A man tried to smuggle his pet turtle through security in Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport by hiding it in […]

By Herp News By Victoria Cavaliere (Reuters) – Two young brothers found dead in an apartment over a reptile store in New Brunswick, Canada, were believed to have been strangled by a snake that escaped its enclosure and slithered into the building's ventilation system, police said on Monday. The boys, ages 5 and 7, were […]

By Herp News By KATE STANTON, UPI.com A large snake — thought to be a boa constrictor but later identified as a python — strangled two Canadian boys in their sleep. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Conservationists seek help from the public to find out more about Scotland's snake, toad and lizard populations. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News By Victoria Cavaliere (Reuters) – Two young brothers found dead in an apartment over a reptile store in New Brunswick, Canada, were believed to have been strangled by a snake that escaped its enclosure and slithered into the building's ventilation system, police said on Monday. The boys, ages 5 and 7, were […]

By Herp News Parametric Sound Corporation , a leading innovator of audio products and solutions, and Turtle Beach, the market leader in video game audio, today announced that the companies have reached a Definitive … Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

Details are few and changing, but the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is reporting that two children ages 5 and 7 are dead after a large python escaped its enclosure in the pet store below their apartment overnight in the town of Campbellton, New Brunswick. According to the constable, it is thought the python entered the upstairs […]

By Herp News Gary Schmelz, in a Journey to the Edge of Eden, takes us through a wonderful personal account of the conservation history of Southwest Florida. Journey to the Edge of Eden is one part personal memoir similar to the English naturalist Gerald Durrell and one part Florida conservation history. With hilarious stories of […]

Check out this video “Field Herping Adventure,” submitted by kingsnake.com user smetlogik. 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