By Herp News A 650-pound female leatherback sea turtle was found stranded in a marsh by Sandy Neck Beach in Barnstable Wednesday morning, and, after a medical checkup, was ushered back out into the ocean.         Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News LEDYARD, Conn. (AP) — A monitor lizard that repeatedly startled residents of this rural Connecticut town before it was killed by police last month was apparently a pet that escaped from its owner's property, police said Thursday.         Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products […]

By Herp News Dentist uses denture repair adhesive to help fix endangered sea turtle's shell in Florida Keys         Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News A Ledyard man illegally owned a monitor lizard that had roamed the eastern part of town and was shot by police last month, police said. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News An 800-pound female leatherback sea turtle was found stranded in a marsh by Sandy Neck Beach in Barnstable Wednesday morning, and, after a medical checkup, was ushered back out into the ocean.         Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News LEDYARD, Conn. (AP) — Ledyard police say they have tracked down the owner of a large reptile that was shot and killed in town last month.         Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News LEDYARD — Police have charged a local man with illegal possession of a reptile after determining it was his 4-foot-long Nile Monitor Lizard that was helping itself to the residents of a chicken coop on Aug. 25.         Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products […]

By Herp News A recent study of forest in East Kalimantan, Borneo has found that orangutans travel on the ground far more often than expected. The study, published in the American Journal of Primatology, was carried out in Wehea Forest involving the use of 78 camera traps across 38 square kilometres of forest. Go to […]

By Herp News Africa’s elephant poaching crisis doesn’t just threaten a species, but imperils one of humanity’s most important links to the natural world and even our collective sanity, according to acclaimed photographers and film-makers, Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson. Authors of the book Walking Thunder – In the Footsteps of the African Elephant, Christo […]

By Herp News The sight of butterflies flocking onto the heads of yellow-spotted river turtles in the western Amazon rain forest is not uncommon, at least if one is able to sneak up on the skittish reptiles. But the reason why butterflies congregate onto the turtles may be stranger than you think: to drink their […]

Is the Prairie rattlesnake (Crotalus Viridis) losing his rattle? Terry Phillip, a naturalist at Reptile Gardens in Rapid City, thinks so. Check out this audio clip and transcript of an NPR story and tell us if you agree. Photo by kingsnake.com user DKT. …read more Read more here: King Snake No products found. Amazon Auto […]

By Herp News Mayor Adam Forgie said that in order to fix the problems in the borough of 6,400 people, he needs to see them. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News A unique new fossil discovered in Jordan has given researchers fresh insight about a prehistoric sea lizard called prognathodon, as it is the first fossil to show the shape of the lizard's tale, suggesting that it swam like a shark. … Continue reading → Go to Source …read more Read more here: […]

By Herp News It was a lizard with a shark-like fin. That’s what Swedish researchers have discovered about the fearsome mosasaur Prognathodon, which lived in the seas of the Cretaceous Period about 70 million years ago. The discovery was based on a fossil found in Jordan in 2008. Researcher Johan Lindgren, of Lund University in […]