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Nov 10
Breeders showcase pets at Scales and Tails Reptile Festival
By Herp News THE thought of cuddling with a crocodile or wearing a snake like a scarf might terrify a lot of people. But not reptile fans like Calum de Mezieres. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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USS Harry S. Truman sailors free trapped sea turtle
By Herp News Reaching the turtle was the first step in what turned out to be the difficult process of freeing it. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Lizards always on the defense
By Herp News Horned lizards are a collection of eight southwestern reptile species that are often referred to as 'horny toads' because of their chunky bodies. / James Cornett, Special to The Desert Sun Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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UFO hunter spots 'fossilized iguana' on Mars
By Herp News The lizard-like object was snapped by Nasa's Mars rover Curiosity. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Reptile training for Long Island law enforcement
By Herp News Law enforcement on Long Island are getting some trained on handling reptiles, many exotic and some poisonous. In September, Suffolk cops and SPCA officers uncovered 850 snakes, including Burmese pythons, in a home in Shirley, part of an illegal reptile business. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products […]
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Reptile Training Under Way For Suffolk County Officials
By Herp News Suffolk SPCA chief Roy Gross said the training is crucial, given the spike of reptiles turning up on Long Island. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Judge allows comptroller to intervene in lizard lawsuit
By Herp News A federal judge has granted Comptroller Susan Combs the day in court she hoped for to address conservation of endangered species in Texas. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Dolphins, bats and the evolution of echolocation
By Herp News A dolphin swimming through the world’s oceans after fish, and a bat flying through the air with its membranous wings to catch insects or eat fruit: at first glance, it looks like no two creatures could be more different. But it turns out they share a superpower – they hunt prey by […]
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Snake invasion lawsuit time!
Tenants in a Georgia apartment complex are suing over what they call an invasion of snakes on the property — indoors and out. From WSB TV: Shawn Davis told Channel 2’s Tom Regan she spotted one slithering down her hallway and another in a fruit bowl. “The first was a baby copperhead; the second was […]
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Frankie Tortoise Tails – Frankie, Purgatory and the Smog in China
Seven days until Frankie’s Big Move. If you’ve been counting you’ll notice it’s seven days and not three days due to one little word not appearing on one piece of paper of many, many, many papers to close our new house in Mobile. That’s right. The closing of our house was cancelled at the last […]
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Three-legged tortoise gets Lego wheel prosthetic
By Herp News BADEN, Germany, Nov. 7 (UPI) — Veterinarians in Germany said a tortoise that lost a front leg is successfully moving around with the help of a Lego wheel. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Male lizards prefer more-feminine lizards to ‘bearded ladies’
By Herp News Mating-behavior studies of lizards in three southern US states have revealed which females male lizards find to be the sexiest. The research provides insight into the evolution of male-female differences. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Could camera trap videos galvanize the world to protect Yasuni from oil drilling?
By Herp News Even ten years ago it would have been impossible to imagine: clear-as-day footage of a jaguar plodding through the impenetrable Amazon, or a bicolored-spined porcupine balancing on a branch, or a troop of spider monkeys feeding at a clay lick, or a band of little coatis racing one-by-one from the dense foliage. […]
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Quail Run Elem. students adopt Sgt. Rex the tortoise
By Herp News TUCSON – The community came together to help Quail Run Elementary adopt a desert tortoise. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Ancient Baby Shark's Last Meal: Baby Turtle
By Herp News LOS ANGELES — More than 70 million years ago, a baby shark may have bitten off more than it could digest. A fossilized hunk of poop from an ancient baby shark has revealed the tiny predator's last meal: a baby turtle. “It's a case where a newborn shark ate a newborn turtle […]
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Florida man arrested for torturing, killing rattlesnake
In a world where “rattlesnake round-ups” are considered good family fun, the arrest of a Florida man who tortured and killed a rattler comes as a refreshing change. From Tallahassee.com: According to the weekly Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission law enforcement report for Oct. 25, in mid-September, Ward Lee Waff “taunted the pygmy rattlesnake […]
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Central Park Zoo debuts baby snow leopard twins (photos)
By Herp News The Wildlife Conservation Society’s Central Park Zoo is debuting a pair of snow leopard cubs that were born this past summer. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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‘Reptile attack’ told family enough was enough
By Herp News A reptile attack was the last straw for a Phnom Penh family locked in a land dispute who sought legal intervention yesterday. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
Read the rest of this entry »Nov 05
Angkor Gold Identifies Stacked Quartz Veins at Blue Lizard Prospect
By Herp News VANCOUVER, B.C. — ANGKOR GOLD CORP. (“ANGKOR”) has completed preliminary exploration on the Blue Lizard Prospect, South Oyadao Exploration Lease, Ratanakiri Province, Cambodia. The prospect … Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Turtle Beach Announces iSeries Line of High-End Media Headsets
By Herp News VALHALLA, N.Y., Nov. 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – Turtle Beach, the leading audio brand in the games industry, today announces the iSeries line of high-end media headsets. The iSeries headsets are packed with innovations that Turtle Beach first introduced to gaming headsets but are new for mobile users, including features that improve chat and […]
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Philadelphia Zoo helping save Haiti's frogs
Scientists from the Philadelphia Zoo are working to save the frogs of Haiti. From Scientific American: As much as 99 percent of Haiti has been deforested over the past few decades, as the country’s desperate people have cut down trees to make way for agriculture or charcoal production. This massive habitat loss has put the […]
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World’s most cryptic feline photographed in logging concession
By Herp News The bay cat is arguably the world’s least-known member of the cat family (Felidae). Although first described by scientists in 1874, no photo existed of a living specimen until 1998 and a wild cat in its rainforest habitat wasn’t photographed until five years later. Given this, scientists with Zoological Society of London […]
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Parametric Sound Corporation Files Preliminary Proxy Materials for Proposed Merger With Turtle Beach
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 preliminary proxy materials have been filed … Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Giant turtle-devouring duck-billed platypus discovered
By Herp News Based on a single tooth from Australia, scientists believe they have discovered a giant, meter-long (3.3 feet) duck-billed platypus that likely fed on fish, frogs, and even turtles, according to a new study in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. At least twice the size of a modern duckbilled platypus, the scientists say the […]
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Thought-to-be-extinct ‘halloween’ frog rediscovered in Costa Rica
By Herp News A breeding population of a critically endangered harlequin toad thought to be extinct in Costa Rica has been discovered in a tract of highland forest in the Central American country, reports a paper published in Amphibia-Reptilia. Atelopus varius, an orange-and-black harlequin toad, was once relatively common from central Costa Rica to western […]
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Snakes control blood flow to aid vision
By Herp News A new study shows that snakes can optimize their vision by controlling the blood flow in their eyes when they perceive a threat. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Reptiles go on show as Scales and Tails promises family fun
By Herp News THE fifth annual Scales and Tails Reptile Festival on Saturday at North Ipswich Reserve promises to be entertaining and educational. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Nellie McKay and Turtle Island unpacked surprises in Hampton | Sound Check
By Herp News The wisdom of linking oddball songwriter Nellie McKay with the jazzy string quartet Turtle Island wasn't immediately clear but, at The American Theatre on Friday, the pairing was often magical. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Gator caught in Chicago's O'Hare Airport
By Herp News Carrying an alligator bag on an airline flight is fine, but live alligators are banned from boarding. That might explain why a toothy reptile was slithering around Chicago's O'Hare International Airport on Friday. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Too hot for them
By Herp News Do you scream when you see a lizard? Read on to find out why lizards are important to us. Text and pictures J. Subramanean Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Herp Video of the Week: Snake Whisperer!
Check out this video “Snake Whisperer,” 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
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LOOSE ALLIGATOR: O’Hare Airport Staff Find Reptile
By Herp News (CNN) — Carrying an alligator bag on an airline flight is fine, but live alligators are banned from boarding. That… Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Alligator at O’Hare Airport rattles security
By Herp News The alligator will eventually find a new life in a reptile park — after getting a few months of treatment for stunted growth. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Alligator captured in Chicago's O'Hare Airport
By Herp News Carrying an alligator bag on an airline flight is fine, but live alligators are banned from boarding. That might explain why a toothy reptile was slithering around Chicago's O'Hare International Airport on Friday. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Alligator captured in Chicago airport
By Herp News Carrying an alligator bag on an airline flight is fine, but live alligators are banned from boarding. That might explain why a toothy reptile was slithering around Chicago's O'Hare International Airport on Friday. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Turtle nesting season a great success
By Herp News He has counted sea-turtle nests in the Key West National Wildlife Refuge for nearly a quarter-century but federal biologist Tom Wilmers never saw a year like this. “It's a year beyond my wildest dreams,” Wilmers said. “It's phenomenal … fabulous.” Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. […]
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Reptile group donates to Manteca Animal Shelter
By Herp News Edgar Ortega is a reptile guy. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
Read the rest of this entry »Nov 01
Tortoise Energy Capital Corp. Provides Unaudited Balance Sheet Information and Asset Coverage Ratio Update as of Oct …
By Herp News Tortoise Energy Capital Corp. today announced that as of Oct. 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $1.1 billion and its unaudited net asset Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Tortoise North American Energy Corp. Provides Unaudited Balance Sheet Information and Asset Coverage Ratio Update as …
By Herp News Tortoise North American Energy Corp. today announced that as of Oct. 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $264.8 million and its unaudited Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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