By Herp News U.S. calls ban necessary to protect wildlife A reptile industry trade group has gone to court to overturn a federal ban on the import of four species of large snake, including the Burmese pythons that have infested the Everglades. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com […]
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Dec 19
Dec 19
Top 10 HAPPY environmental stories of 2013
By Herp News 1. China begins to tackle pollution, carbon emissions: As China’s environmental crisis worsens, the government has begun to unveil a series of new initiatives to curb record pollution and cut greenhouse emissions. The world’s largest consumer of coal, China’s growth in emissions is finally slowing and some experts believe the nation’s emissions […]
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How a bird is like a crocodile is like a monitor lizard
Birds do it. Crocodiles do it. Dinosaurs did it. And now it looks like monitor lizards are in the one-way, flow-through breathing club, too. That’s the word from researcher Emma Schachner in a recently-published article in the prestigious journal Nature. From the awesome Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week blog: After 1972, biologists had almost […]
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