By Herp News The lusty geckos will have plenty of time alone. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Myrtle Beach State Park ranger Ann Malys Wilson isn’t worried about a quiet sea turtle season – which ends in August – following a record year in 2013. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News It's not the year of the turtle. Only half as many sea turtle nests as usual have been laid at Cape Island, which usually holds one-third of the nests laid from North Carolina through Georgia. The rest of the coast is no better. But wildlife biologists say an “off” year was expected. […]

By Herp News “Alaska wood frogs spend more time freezing and thawing outside than a steak does in your freezer, and the frog comes back to life in the spring in better shape than the steak,” said the lead author on a recent paper demonstrating that freeze tolerance in Alaska wood frogs is more extreme […]

By Herp News Get ready to learn a new word: defaunation. Fauna is the total collection of animals—both in terms of species diversity and abundance—in a given area. So, defaunation, much like deforestation, means the loss of animals in all its myriad forms, including extinction, extirpation, or population declines. Go to Source …read more Read […]

The very first Philippine crocodiles to be bred in Britain made their debut at the London Zoo. From the Orange News: The six new-born critically-endangered crocs – born over a 48 hour period – are among the world’s rarest reptiles. As they are native only to the Philippines the baby crocodiles were named after the […]

By Herp News Lush Cosmetics has agreed to support an effort to battle trafficking of the Sunda pangolin. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Tortoise Capital Advisors, L.L.C. announced today the release of 2014 semi-annual stockholders' reports for each of NDP, NTG, TPZ, TTP and TYG, as well as TYY and TYN, which merged Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News SAN DIEGO, July 22, 2014 /PRNewswire/ – Turtle Beach Corporation (NASDAQ: HEAR) today announced that it will report second quarter 2014 financial results after the market close on August 11, 2014.  On … Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News A coalition of conservation groups have established a new protected area in one of Latin America’s most neglected ecosystems: the Colombian-side of the Serranía de Perijá mountain range. Following decades of bloody conflict and rampant deforestation, experts say only five percent of rainforest is left on the Colombian side of this embattled […]

A 4-foot alligator was rounded up near Wisconsin’s Sheboygan River. From the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel: A team of sheriff’s deputies and Sheboygan police officers corralled and snared the snarling reptile in a ditch near the Sheboygan River after a brief search that started in the 2700 block of Indiana Ave. in the city of Sheboygan, […]

By Herp News CEBU – A 30-year-old hawksbill turtle found wounded in Barangay Bato in Toledo City died at the University of San Carlos Marine Research Station in Lapu-Lapu City on Tuesday. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News If you’re monkey—say a samango monkey in South Africa—probably the last thing you want is to be torn apart and eaten by a leopard or a caracal. In fact, you probably spend a lot of time and energy working to avoid such a grisly fate. Well, now there’s a simpler way: just […]

As temperatures in their native ranges change, male reptiles may need to disperse to survive. That’s according to a study published in the journal BMC Ecology. From BBC Nature News: Alligators, some turtles, and the tuatara – found only in New Zealand – all produce offspring whose gender is determined by temperature. These species are […]

By Herp News A pet lizard and the family cat are safe this morning in Taft after being rescued by the Kern County Fire Department from a house fire on Saturday. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News So far, Kotaku has introduced an array of animal cafes in Japan: cat cafes , black cat cafes , owl cafes , bunny cafes , squirrel gardens and even penguin bars . Now, check out the country's reptile cafes. Read more… Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products […]

By Herp News Paleontologists have recreated the cranial structure of a 308-million-year-old lizard-like vertebrate that could be the earliest example of a reptile and explain the origin of all vertebrates that belong to reptiles, birds and mammals. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Anne Marie Schudy of Springfield, Mo., Austin Barone of Lawrence, Kan. and Olivia DeSmit of Columbia, Mo. are the 2014 recipients of the annual Tortoise Young Entrepreneurs Scholarship Awards. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News A green sea turtle migrates 2,472 miles in a year Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

Don’t you just hate it when the tortoises turn on you? From the BBC: A police officer in Uganda has reportedly shot a tortoise dead after being attacked by the “aggressive” creature. The incident happened in the Nebbi district in the north of the country near the Congolese border. The officer – named as Charles […]

By Herp News A reptile expert said Friday that he wants to go “on the record” and confirm that New Jersey authorities are searching for an anaconda, not a boa constrictor in the state's largest lake. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Did a sea turtle “hug” a surfer who rescued it from fishing nets? Call it what you will, but the moment caught by a GoPro camera on the stunning video shows there was a connection there. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Did a sea turtle “hug” a surfer who rescued it from fishing nets? Call it what you will, but the moment caught by a GoPro camera on the stunning video shows there was a connection there. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

Big day for me on Thursday: gecko management & feeding, working with two injured turtles, cursing a phone that hasn’t worked in 35 hours, two doctor appointments, painting trim outside, and haunting thoughts, without relief, over the torture of another turtle. With no sleep to help me navigate the day the only escape I get […]

By Herp News A reptile specialist leading the search for a snake on the loose in Lake Hopatcong now says it is a green anaconda, not a boa constrictor, as officials had maintained. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Less than a mile from downtown Newberry sits a group of unmarked gray warehouse buildings that contain either endless wonders or the stuff of nightmares, depending on how you feel about snakes. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Ever since the desert tortoise was declared a threatened species, the government has spent hundreds of millions protecting them. Some might question whether it's paid off. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Researchers have used mRNA sequences, rather than DNA, to more efficiently create a reference database that can be used for proteomic analysis of Xenopus frogs. The researchers used their reference database to identify over 11,000 proteins from an unfertilized Xenopus egg and estimate the abundance of these proteins. The method outperformed comparison […]

By Herp News The little green heads popping up from the sands of Tybee Island's beaches Thursday served as proof that a major event was finally occurring… Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Shelly the turtle is home safe in her summer backyard pond in Hay River, N.W.T. after a neighbour spotted her crossing a nearby street. An expert had warned of a possible ecological disaster when she escaped three weeks ago. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon […]

By Herp News Byline: The Lizard’s Tamar class all-weather lifeboat Rose launched yesterday morning (16 July) to go to the assistance of a 100 year old sailing vessel Ruth with four people on board which had lost its main mast three miles southwest of Lizard Point. Page Content: The Lizard lifeboat volunteer crew launched just […]

Check out this video “Chameleon changing color,” submitted by kingsnake.com user PH FasDog. 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 Ontario’s once plentiful turtles are rapidly disappearing as poachers grab the reptiles for sale on the international pet trade market. Some turtle populations in the province have completely vanished over the past decade. “My turtles are gone,” Jacqueline Litzgus, a spotted turtle researcher, told the The Canadian Press last week. Most of […]

By Herp News A faster and more accurate way to test for infection with Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola, a fungus that is killing snakes in the Midwest and eastern United States, has been devised by researchers. The test also allows scientists to monitor the progression of the infection in living snakes. Researchers first took notice of Ophidiomyces […]

By Herp News A new study casts doubt on long-held suspicions that persistent organic pollutants in the environment make green turtle more susceptible to the virus that causes fibropapilomatosis, a disease that forms large benign tumors that can inhibit the animal’s sight, mobility and feeding ability. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com […]

By Herp News Polar bears are big animals. As the world’s largest land predators, a single male can weigh over a staggering 700 kilograms (about 1,500 pounds). But as impressive as they are, it’s difficult to imagine counting polar bears from space. Still, this is exactly what scientists have done according to a new paper […]

So, that snake infamously fished out of an Alabama toilet? It was retrieved by police officer Ali Thompson and identified by Hueytown Police Chief Chuck Hagler as a venomous cottonmouth. Local herpers came out of the proverbial woodwork, however, to say he was wrong. From AL.com: tidey : Don’t know about fangs… but this appears […]

So, that snake infamously fished out of an Alabama toilet? It was retrieved by police officer Ali Thompson and identified by Hueytown Police Chief Chuck Hagler as a venomous cottonmouth. Local herpers came out of the proverbial woodwork, however, to say he was wrong. From AL.com: tidey : Don’t know about fangs… but this appears […]

By Herp News A new graphic novel written by Gene Luen Yang re-imagines the Green Turtle, a mysterious superhero created during World War II, as the American-born son of Chinese immigrants. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News A woman in DeKalb, Illinois, is asking for help in finding a lost pet: a two-foot lizard. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links