By Herp News LONG BEACH, Calif. — As dolphins and pelicans fed on schools of sardines and anchovies Thursday, rescue workers released an endangered olive ridley sea turtle back into the wild after Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News A fungal outbreak in the eastern and Midwestern United States is infecting some populations of wild snakes. Snake Fungal Disease (SFD), a fungal dermatitis consistently associated with the fungus Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola, is showing recent spikes in occurrence according to the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Wildlife Health Center (NWHC) and other diagnostic laboratories. […]

No matter how much you love snakes, finding one in the toilet at Starbucks is gonna give you a shock. From Fox4kc.com: Snakes in unexpected places can startle anyone. For Bruce Ahlswede the unexpected place was a San Antonio Starbucks bathroom, where he had stopped on Tuesday after a business presentation. He froze for a […]

By Herp News McDonald's Singapore hasn't served up any leaping lizards, the burger maker said, with preliminary lab tests laying to rest the reptile ruckus that erupted after a customer claimed to have received a Sausage … Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News September 06, 2013 6:27 PM Preliminary lab test results have indicated that a McDonald's Sausage McMuffin burger which allegedly contained a lizard is “100 percent chicken”.         Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Tail of baby lizard found in Sausage Mcmuffin. (Facebook grab) McDonald's Singapore has sent a sample of the half-eaten Sausage McMuffin, in which a customer claims to have found a baby lizard, for a lab test. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News [Update on 6 September 2013, 10:20 am: Added updates from McDonald's Singapore] McDonald's Singapore has sent a sample of the half-eaten Sausage McMuffin, in which a customer claims to have found a baby lizard, for a lab test. According to … Continue reading → Go to Source …read more Read more here: […]

By Herp News McDonald's Singapore faces a reptile ruckus after a customer claimed to have found a baby lizard in a Sausage McMuffin. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News McDonald's Singapore faces a reptile ruckus after a customer claimed to have received a Sausage McMuffin containing a baby lizard. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News A McDonald's Sausage McMuffin burger which a customer in Singapore claimed to contain a baby lizard has been sent to a laboratory for testing. The fast-food chain sent an employee down to the custome …..         Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon […]

By Herp News The olive ridley sea turtle was underweight, hypothermic and barely breathing when it was discovered stranded by Marine Animal Rescue workers in early January. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News BOCA RATON – More than 500 sea turtle hatchlings were gently released by hand today onto sea beds off Florida’s Atlantic Coast, where the turtles have a better chance to survive. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — More than 500 sea turtle hatchlings were gently released by hand Thursday onto sea beds off Florida's Atlantic Coast, where the turtles have a better chance to survive. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News BOCA RATON, Fla. — More than 500 sea turtle hatchlings were gently released by hand Thursday onto sea beds off Florida's Atlantic Coast, where the turtles have a better chance to survive. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

When it comes to snakes, “protection” apparently equals “death.” Check out the final paragraph of a news story out of Norway today, about just under 200 pythons who were seized in a police raid in Oslo: The snakes and other reptiles were turned over to animal protection authorities at state agency Mattilsynet, but were expected […]

By Herp News After hunting dogs, an electric fence and traps couldn’t get the job done, a German town looking to remove a snapping turtle from a lake has asked a blacksmith to create a giant rake to fish out the sharp-beaked reptile. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. […]

By Herp News Last month scientists unveiled a remarkable discovery: a new mammal in the order Carnivora (even though it mostly lives off fruits) in the Andean cloud forests. This was the first new mammal from that order in the Western Hemisphere since the 1970s. The olinguito had long been mistaken for its closest relatives, […]

By Herp News TORONTO , Sept. 4, 2013 /CNW/ – For one weekend September 14 and 15th one of North America's largest LIVE reptile hobby shows is in Toronto at the International Center on Airport Rd. With over 85 000 square … Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon […]

By Herp News The owners of a reptile zoo on Barton Street says they will take legal action to keep about 20 animals that the city says violate the animal control bylaw. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Byline: The Lizard lifeboat was launched for the third time in three days on Friday afternoon, this time to a 25 metre commercial scalloping vessel that had suffered an engine fire, approximately 2 miles south of Lizard Point. Page Content: The lifeboat was launched with a crew of seven just after 4pm […]

A mysterious disease wiped out nearly all fire salamanders in the Netherlands, even those taken into captivity to protect them. Now scientists have identified the fungus responsible, and warned it could spread to amphibians around the world. From Scientific American: But now the cause of the fire salamanders’ rapid decline has been revealed. According to […]

By Herp News A fast food customer in Singapore had the shock of her life when she discovered the tail of a baby lizard sticking out of her half-eaten Sausage McMuffin on Wednesday. A photo of the half-eaten burger was snapped and sent … Continue reading → Go to Source …read more Read more here: […]

By Herp News Leapin’ lizards! Hunters in Mississippi broke a state record for the heaviest alligator ever bagged, kicking off the season with two monster catches. Dustin Bockman of Wisconsin and two hunting buddies bagged the 727-pound 13-foot-long beast on Sunday, beating the previous year’s record-setter by 26 pounds, according to the… Go to Source […]

By Herp News Authorities say they found found evidence of a live loggerhead sea turtle and unhatched sea turtle eggs at Kim Raymond Feaste's home. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Tortoise Energy Independence Fund, Inc. today announced that as of Aug. 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $431.9 million and its unaudit 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 Aug. 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $380.7 million and its unaud 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 Aug. 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $1.9 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 Aug. 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $230.8 million and 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 Aug. 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $253.3 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 Capital Corp. today announced that as of Aug. 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $1.0 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 Tortoise Energy Infrastructure Corp. today announced that as of Aug. 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $2.0 billion and its unaudited ne Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Authorities say they found found evidence of a live loggerhead sea turtle and unhatched sea turtle eggs at Kim Raymond Feaste's home. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

If you want a Gardiner’s Seychelles frog to hear what you have to say, tell him to forget his ears and open his mouth. From NatGeo: Scientists had thought that the Gardiner’s Seychelles frog—at 11 millimeters among the tiniest in the world—was deaf because it doesn’t have a middle ear, a critical component of hearing […]

By Herp News Gardiner’s frogs from the Seychelles islands, one of the smallest frogs in the world, do not possess a middle ear with an eardrum yet can croak themselves, and hear other frogs. An international team of scientists using X-rays has now solved this mystery and established that these frogs are using their mouth […]

By Herp News IRSEE, Germany, Sept. 2 (UPI) — Officials in a German village said they are planning to use a giant rake in an attempt to find a suspected alligator turtle in a local pond. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Florida Fish and Wild life officials went to a man’s Channelside apartment and found a sea turtle in an aquarium. The man also is a suspect in the disturbing of a nest on Casey Key. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News In a world first, scientists have captured images and video of a boa constrictor attacking and devouring whole a femle howler monkey, one of the largest new world primates weighing in at around 4 kilograms (8.8 pounds). The rare predation event was recorded in a tiny forest fragment (2.5 hectares) in the […]

By Herp News In a world first, scientists have captured images and video of a boa constrictor attacking and devouring whole a femle howler monkey, one of the largest new world primates weighing in at around 4 kilograms (8.8 pounds). The rare predation event was recorded in a tiny forest fragment (2.5 hectares) in the […]

By Herp News Turtle Bay Resort's new incentive package invites companies to pack up their offices and bring them to the beach. Multi-million dollar renovation of guestrooms, spa, and restaurants near completion. (PRWeb August 31, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/8/prweb11076984.htm Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon […]

By Herp News A Hillsborough County man is charged with illegally possessing a sea turtle and authorities say he Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links