By Herp News The idea for a reptile rescue came to Tonya Hinshaw when she picked up two geckos that were advertised on Craigslist. The critters were malnourished, and their little terrarium was dirty and littered with dead cockroaches. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News An unusual species of mouth-brooding frog was likely driven to extinction by the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), making an unusual example of ‘extinction by infection’, argue scientists writing in the open-access journal PLOS ONE. Rhinoderma rufum has not been seen in the wild since 1980. Go to Source …read more Read more […]

By Herp News KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 21 — His wildlife smuggling earned him the title “Lizard King” and led wildlife groups to dub him “public enemy number one”, but the name Anson Wong drew a blank with Natural… Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News A 10-year study by the US Fish and Wildlife Service shows some good news for frogs and toads on national wildlife refuges. The rate of abnormalities such as shortened or missing legs was less than 2 percent overall — indicating that the malformations first reported in the mid-1990s were rarer than feared. […]

By Herp News India’s last dancing bear has retired. As the stars of their cruel little roadshows, sloth bears danced to the piercing sounds of the damru for hundreds of years. Orphaned by poachers and trained by the Qalandars, a nomadic Muslim community, these bears trudged through towns and villages to earn their masters a […]

Snake venom and other harmful substances can save lives as well as take them. From LiveScience.com: “Poisons can be bad for some things and good for others, including humans,” said Michael Novacek, senior vice president of the American Museum of Natural History, at an opening of a new poison-themed exhibition Tuesday (Nov. 12). […] The […]

By Herp News Tortoise Energy Capital Corporation (TYY) Ex-Dividend Date Scheduled for November 20, 2013 Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Tortoise MLP Fund, Inc. (NTG) Ex-Dividend Date Scheduled for November 20, 2013 Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Tortoise Energy Infrastructure Corporation (TYG) Ex-Dividend Date Scheduled for November 20, 2013 Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

Florida commercial fisher Eddie Toomer was awarded the Gladding Memorial Award by the Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute for his lifetime commitment to protecting endangered sea turtles. From KBTX.com: Toomer is most renowned for his important contributions to the design of turtle excluder devices (TEDs) for shrimp trawlers. “TEDs maximize shrimp harvest while allowing endangered […]

By Herp News A North Carolina Man needed anti-venom for a dangerous snake bite over the weekend and officials there asked the Kentucky Reptile Zoo for help. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Byline: The Lizard lifeboat has been launched to assist two yachts in difficulties off Lizard Point and has also been involved in a search over a three day period. Page Content: On Tuesday 12 November at 8:30am The Lizard lifeboat was launched to a lone sailor onboard Yacht Quintess 2 on passage […]

By Herp News A recent study from the Biological Conservation journal brings shocking news: every year across the globe, an estimated 400,000 seabirds are killed by gillnets. Gillnets, a common term for any net used to entangle and catch fish, are used all over the world, and at any depth. These nets, whether used in […]

By Herp News A recent study from the Biological Conservation journal brings shocking news: every year across the globe, an estimated 400,000 seabirds are killed by gillnets. Gillnets, a common term for any net used to entangle and catch fish, are used all over the world, and at any depth. These nets, whether used in […]

By Herp News Did you ever have one of those days that starts out good and just gets better as the day goes by? Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News LAS CRUCES >> If your pet has scales instead of fur, or if you're interested in adding a tortoise, snake or lizard to your household, Awesome Reptiles in Las Cruces offers everything Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News If you've driven in downtown Louisville lately and found yourself doing a double take after seeing a man walk a giant turtle you're not hallucinating! The turtle and his handler are the real deal and becoming quite a local attraction. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. […]

Veterinarians in Germany didn’t just treat the injuries on an injured tortoise brought in to a local animal shelter after being inured. They raided the toy box and built him a prosthetic wheeled leg. From The Local: “First we fitted a double wheel but it was difficult for him to turn corners so we replaced […]

By Herp News The crowd greeted the 140-pound loggerhead turtle like a rock star Thursday — a collective “awwww” swelled up as she touched beach sand for the first time in 106 days.         Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News The crowd greeted the 140-pound loggerhead turtle like a rock star Thursday — a collective “awwww” swelled up as she touched beach sand for the first time in 106 days.         Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News The crowd greeted the 140-pound loggerhead turtle her like a rock star Thursday — a collective “awwww” swelled up as she touched beach sand for the first time in 106 days. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News You're probably asking, why would a site devoted to the protection of sea turtles launch an iDevice tracker? Here's why — and how it might survive a challenge from Apple. Originally posted at News – Apple Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News A Web site devoted to sea turtles has set up a Web page that shows which Apple stores have the new iPad Mini in stock. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News VANCOUVER, British Columbia — ANGKOR GOLD CORP. (“ANGKOR”) is pleased to announce that it has closed a Purchase Agreement with Mesco Gold Ltd. (“Mesco”) which extends their existing … Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

A Florida paleontologist says climate change may turn back the species clock to a day when mammals were tiny and reptiles huge. From NBC News: “You see the size of these animals dancing with the climate,” said Jonathan Bloch, a paleontologist at the Florida Museum of Natural History. Bloch delved into the connection between body […]

By Herp News Security cameras record the mystery woman holding and petting the reptile on a train hours before it was found at O'Hare airport. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

Considering they’re still making news 66 million years after going extinct, dinosaurs are clearly one of humanity’s favorite animals. Here is a round-up of dino-centric stories from the last week: From National Geographic: An enigma for decades, a giant dinosaur known only for its brawny arms actually towered over the local tyrannosaurs, paleontologists report. It […]

By Herp News Some good news out of the Amazon rainforest: given enough time, deforested land can rebound enough to host bird species that had previously deserted the area, according to a recent study in The Auk. When people abandon deforested land, the rainforest slowly reclaims it. Eventually, birds begin to use the clumps of […]

By Herp News Sonny Fernandez and volunteers put Lefty, a loggerhead sea turtle, in a pool at the new Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center in Surf City last Thursday. The new building is 16-times larger than the old facility used since 1996. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No […]

By Herp News In 1992, scientists made a spectacular discovery: a large, land mammal (200 pounds) that had somehow eluded science even as humans visited the moon and split the atom. Its discoverers, with WWF and Vietnam’s Ministry of Forestry, dubbed the species the saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis). Found in the Annamite Mountains in Laos and […]

The Chicago Herpetological Society is caring for a two-foot alligator found under an escalator at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport. From the Chicago Tribune: The group has about 500 members, including about 30 in the Chicago area who open their homes, bathtubs and backyards to reptiles and amphibians who need a place to stay or recover. While […]

By Herp News Puppet shows, posters and children’s activities that draw from local traditions are helping to save an endangered monkey in China. The activities, which encourage villagers—children and adults alike—to protect their forests and adopt fuel-efficient cooking stoves, have worked, according to a report published in Conservation Evidence. Local Chinese researchers, supported by the […]

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 Rescued just in time. An injured loggerhead sea turtle was pulled out of a Coconut Grove canal by Florida Fish and Wildlife Officials after receiving a call from a good Samaritan of a turtle in distress. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Sailors assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman rescued a sea turtle that was tangled in a makeshift fishing net last week. “They called away, 'man the port davit,' because a lookout saw some containers attached to a net in the water, and there was a sea turtle trapped in […]

By Herp News Schildi the tortoise is back up and running now. (Credit: Bird Consulting International) Schildi the tortoise was found in rough shape in Germany. He was abandoned and missing part of his front leg. What was left of the leg was in such bad condition, it had to be amputated at the shoulder. […]

By Herp News SONOMA, Calif., Nov. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – Following a decade in the American Le Mans Series and coming off of a team championship clinching GTC class win in the final ALMS race at Road Atlanta, Flying Lizard Motorsports today announced that it would join the new TUDOR United SportsCar Championship with two cars […]

By Herp News Long-time Porsche sportscar squad Flying Lizard will switch to Audi for the first season of the United SportsCar Championship in 2014 Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News The Turtle Creek Garden Club has selected the property at 316 Applewood Drive as its November Yard of the Month. The lovely property, owned by Jennifer and Jason Andrews, was selected for its variety of color, texture and for being… Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. […]

By Herp News In the eyes of a female poison-dart frog, a red male isn’t much brighter than a green one. This does not however mean that the mating behavior of the green and red variants of the same species of frog is exactly the same. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com […]