New research at the University of Sydney may give conservation of crocodiles a boost by examining how their tough lives have given their immune systems an evolutionary advantage. From Phys.org: The MHC is a group of genes that help the immune system identify microbes and parasites. They play an important role in disease resistance, as […]

By Herp News The Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa is back in Grand Forks Tuesday discussing the possibility of building a casino in the city. Tuesday's City Council meeting is a chance for the Turtle Mountain Band to discuss their vision for the Casino in Grand Forks. Go to Source …read more Read more here: […]

By Herp News Eileen Nelson, an engineer with Stantec Consulting Services Inc., the township's engineer, told Newtown Supervisors at the last meeting that there has been further delay with the awarding of the contract for the Gradyville Road Bridge project due to “the bog turtle.” Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No […]

By Herp News Newport Aquarium announced Tuesday, Feb. 18, the addition of Turtle Canyon, a thrilling new exhibit set to open to the public March 22, 2014. (PRWeb February 18, 2014) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/02/prweb11594557.htm Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News A new turtle exhibit is coming to the Newport Aquarium. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Eileen Nelson, an engineer with Stantec Consulting Services Inc., the township’s engineer, told Newtown Supervisors at the last meeting that there has been further delay with the awarding of the contract for the Gradyville Road Bridge project due to “the bog turtle.” Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No […]

By Herp News Representatives of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa will be back in Grand Forks Tuesday to discuss the possibility of a casino here with the City Council. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Welcome to Wildleaks: a new website that aims to give the global public a secure and anonymous platform to report wildlife trafficking and illegal deforestation. The illegal wildlife trade has become one of the world’s largest criminal activities in recent years, decimating elephants, rhinos, tigers, primates, and thousands of lesser known species. […]

Looks like ancient reptiles got deliveries from the stork. That’s an amazingly inaccurate paraphrase of a recent study published on the journal PLOS ONE, which analyzed an ichthyosaur fossil. From National Geographic: The 248-million-year-old fossil from the Mesozoic era (252 to 66 million years ago) reveals an ichthyosaur baby inside its mother (orange) and another […]

By Herp News Sarah Clowe, museum educator, shows off an European Legless Lizard during a demonstration of live animals during February Science Camp at the Children's Museum of Science and Technology Monday in Troy. CMOST is designed specifically for children and adults to explore science. At left, Rocco Spadoni, 3, takes a hands-on approach with […]

By Herp News Scientists have identified a new species of day gecko that is the largest in its genus (Cnemaspis) to be found in Sri Lanka. To date, it has been observed only within the Rammalakanda Reserve in southern Sri Lanka, an area spanning just 1,700 hectares, raising questions about the viability of this population […]

By Herp News Bilal Habib is closely tracking the flight of a bird. Six times a day he gets its location, within a few hundred feet, through a GPS monitoring device attached to its body. One of the last members of its species, this Great Indian Bustard is part of the latest effort to save […]

Developers or snakes? You decide. From the Kansas City Star: Barely a half-foot long without a drop of venom, the redbelly snake hardly seems a threat. Unless you’re a developer or public official in Johnson County. Listed by Kansas as a threatened species, the reddish brown reptile with the orange belly is complicating growth in […]

By Herp News Rehabilitated sea turtle final one to be returned from group of 24 brought to SeaWorld Orlando in December off coast of Cape Cod The patient suffered from severe pneumonia and tissue wounds.         Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Photographer Christopher Mullen found this dead lizard near the Glenwood Springs whitewater park on Thursday night, Feb. 13. Is anyone looking for a lost lizard? Email Drew Munro at dmunro@postindependent.com if you have information about this mystery lizard. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto […]

By Herp News Love is in the air, and in the sea this Valentine's Day, as a male and female loggerhead turtle were released together Friday off the Florida Keys. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News In a 23 News Exclusive Mike Garrigan talked to a local woman that had a recent dinner preparation take quite a bizarre turn. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Photographer Christopher Mullen found this dead lizard near the Glenwood Springs whitewater park on Thursday night, Feb. 13. Is anyone looking for a lost lizard? Email Drew Munro at dmunro@postindependent.com if you have information about this mystery lizard. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto […]

By Herp News A fossil specimen recovered in China shows an ancient reptile in the middle of giving live birth, indicating that live-birth in air-breathing marine animals was not an aquatic adaptation. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News In a 23 News Exclusive Mike Garrigan talked to a local woman that had a recent dinner preparation take quite a bizarre turn. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News DAVIS, Calif., Feb. 13 (UPI) — A fossil of a giant marine reptile known as an ichthyosaur may show evidence of the oldest live reptilian birth ever seen, U.S. paleontologists say. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Paleontologists have discovered a fossil of a baby reptile emerging from its mother's body during its birth, millions of years before dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

Check out this video “Honduran Milk Snakes,” submitted by kingsnake.com user boa2cobras. 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

By Herp News Beaked whales are incredibly elusive and rare, little-known to scientists and the public alike—although some species are three times the size of an elephant. Extreme divers, beaked whales have been recorded plunging as deep as 1,800 meters (5,900 feet) for over an hour. Few of the over 20 species are well-known by […]

By Herp News These are sights that have rarely been seen by human eyes: a stealthy jaguar, a bustling giant armadillo, and, most amazingly, a sloth slurping up clay from the ground. A new compilation of camera trap videos from Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorean Amazon shows a staggering array of species, many cryptic […]

By Herp News Almost everyone knows what an earthworm is, but these very familiar animals are just one variation on a very rich theme that is at its most fabulously varied in the oceans. The mind-boggling appearances and lifestyles of the marine segmented worms are perfectly exemplified by this week’s animal. Go to Source …read […]

When the male túngara frog whispers sweet nothings into his loved one’s ear, it’s not a private conversation. From Wired: Male túngara frogs, native to Central and South America, gather at night in shallow ponds and call to attract females. They space themselves out carefully, each male defending a small calling site. Competition for females […]

By Herp News Washington, February 13 (ANI): A new study has claimed that Ichthyosaur fossils may show the earliest live birth from an ancient Mesozoic marine reptile. Ichthyosaurs were giant marine reptiles that evolved from land reptiles and moved to the water. Ryosuke Motani and his colleagues from the University of California, Davis, reported a […]

By Herp News A live birth reptile fossil found recently has scientists dumbfounded, pre-dating the current record by millions of years. It was previously believed that reptiles bore young tail-first, and mammals gave birth to their young head-first. According to National Geographic, the … Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products […]

By Herp News A new fossil that captures both birth and death reveals the earliest ancestors of the giant prehistoric sea predators called ichthyosaurs birthed their babies headfirst, according to a new study. Until now, researchers thought live birth first appeared in marine reptiles after they took to the seas, Motani said. Go to Source […]

By Herp News The oldest embryos of a dinosaur-era sea reptile show that ichthyosaurs gave birth on land, a surprising discovery.         Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Ichthyosaur fossil may show the earliest live birth from an ancient Mesozoic marine reptile, according to a study published February 12, 2014 in PLOS ONE by Ryosuke Motani from the University of California, Davis, and colleagues. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News A fossil freezes in time the moment when a reptile that lived before dinosaurs gave birth. Continue reading → Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News The long-distance relocation of nuisance animals may appear to benefit both people and wildlife, but often the animals end up dead. Research suggests such human/animal conflicts are best solved with short-distance relocations instead. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Brazilian-born shoe designer Alexandre Birman, known for feminine, whimsical shoes crafted in exotic reptile skins, found fitting inspiration in Henri Rousseau's jungle-themed painting The Dream. The painting depicts a reclining nude on a velvet couch (Freud having been the big trend in 1910) dreaming about snakes, lions, exotic birds, a gorilla playing […]

By Herp News Yesterday, the Obama administration announced an ambitious new strategy to help tackle the global illegal wildlife trade, including a near-complete ban on commercial ivory. The new strategy will not only push over a dozen federal agencies to make fighting wildlife trafficking a new priority, but will also focus on reducing demand for […]

No, alligators and crocodiles can’t fly, but they can climb trees, suggests research at the University of Tennessee. From Science Daily: Vladimir Dinets, a research assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, is the first to thoroughly study the tree-climbing and -basking behavior. The research is published in the journal Herpetology. Dinets and his colleagues […]

By Herp News His office couldn't produce the goods, but Prime Minister John Key is fighting back. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Turtle Beach, the leading brand in gaming audio, today announced that the company¹s highly anticipated line of Xbox One compatible headsets will be available at retail on March 7 worldwide. The XO Series … Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Turtle Beach, the gaming audio brand in the games industry, today announced that the company's highly anticipated line of Xbox One compatible headsets will be available at retail on March 7 worldwide. … Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links