By Herp News Researchers working in the Mekong region of Southeast Asia discovered 367 new species between 2012-2013, and are finding them at a rate of one new species every two days. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News A colorful bird found on the Wakatobi islands south of Sulawesi in Indonesia is sufficiently distinct from birds in nearby areas to be classified as a unique species, argue scientists writing in the current issue of the open-access journal PLoS ONE. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products […]

By Herp News ( PLOS ) The first intact skull of a Mediterranean worm lizard has been found in Spain. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News This family, known as blanids, includes the only worm lizards found on land in Europe, said study researcher Arnau Bolet, a doctoral student at the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont in Barcelona. “Thus, the study of a complete fossil skull more than 11 million years old was an unprecedented opportunity.” [The […]

By Herp News Shell Canada is awarding the Georgian Bay Turtle Hospital with a $50,000 grant. The hospital has been struggling to become a functional rehabilitation centre. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

A newly identified extinct reptile known as a dyrosaur has been named after a literary monster. From Live Science: It was 16 feet (4.8 meters) long and tipped the scales at 900 lbs. (408 kilograms). With a blunt snout and powerful bite, it ate turtles and battled monster snakes. Now this extinct dyrosaur, a type […]

By Herp News The Asian Turtle Program was established in 1998 and incorporated into the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo/Cleveland Zoological Society’s Asia regional program in 2003. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Four donors from around the world have pledged $80 million to cat conservation group, Panthera. The money will fund projects working to preserve tigers, lions, jaguars, cheetahs, leopards, snow leopards, and cougars over ten years. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

Just as distracting as a flea to a cat, so a new object in a yard draws the attention of a sulcata tortoise: specifically, Frankie the tortoise. Frankie has finely deemed the back yard worthy. With warm and sunny days now abundant, Frankie has taken to walking his yard, every inch, every day, for hours […]

By Herp News The reptile, discovered in the same layer of rock as the Titanoboa fossil in the Cerrejon coal mine of northern Colombia, has been named after the “demons of terror” Balrogs characters in the Lord of the Rings. “Much like that giant beast, Anthracosuchus balrogus was awakened from deep within a mine after 60 […]

Climate change may not be good for the wildlife we’ve still got, but the melting glaciers it’s causing are revealing some pretty cool fossils. From HuffPo: Dozens of nearly complete skeletons of prehistoric marine reptiles have been uncovered near a melting glacier in southern Chile. Scientists found 46 specimens from four different species of extinct […]

By Herp News The ACT government will spend $1.5million to extend the grassland homes of the striped legless lizard and the golden sun moth. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Ecotourism projects aimed to protect endangered marine species and help sustain community-based tourism enterprises are being developed on Turtle Islands, one of the world’s major nesting sites of marine turtles and located in the country’s southernmost frontier. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News The Public Health Agency of Canada is collaborating with Provincial public health partners to investigate an outbreak of salmonellosis related to snakes and rodents used to feed reptiles, such as mice, also known as feeder rodents. Outbreaks associated with reptiles and feeder rodents have been seen in Canada, the United States and […]

By Herp News On May 22nd, zoos and aquariums around the world creatively called for action on global warming. Dubbed ‘Show the Wild Face of Climate Change,’ the event involved over 70 institutions from 25 countries on all seven continents. 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 May 31, 2014, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $2.3 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 MLP Fund, Inc. today announced that as of May 31, 2014, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $2.3 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 MLP Fund, Inc. today announced that as of May 31, 2014, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $2.3 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 MLP Fund, Inc. today announced that as of May 31, 2014, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $2.3 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 Energy Independence Fund, Inc. today announced that as of May 31, 2014, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $504.3 million and its unaudite Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

Australian researchers found that brightly-tailed lizards may lose their tails to bird attacks more frequently than their drab cousins do, but they’re protected from more serious attacks to the rest of their bodies. From the Science Network of Western Australia: Curtin University’s Dr Bill Bateman and Murdoch University’s A/Professor Trish Fleming say their findings support […]

So Booger has always been a problem child in one way or another, despite his goofy, out going personality. He’s a bit of a bully when it comes to the females. When they were all still together he would find a way to hang out on top of Tammy and try to flip Teddy over. […]

By Herp News TAMPA — A University of South Florida professor led a trio of paleontologists who have discovered and named the earliest of the pterodactyloids, a group of flying reptiles that became the dominant winged creatures of the prehistoric world. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto […]