By Herp News More than 10,000 reptile species have been recorded into the Reptile Database, a web-based catalogue of all living reptile species and classification, making the reptile species among the most diverse vertebrate groups in the world, alongside bird and fish species. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. […]
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Aug 04
Aug 04
Scientists catalog the world’s 10,000th reptile
By Herp News As of this year, scientists have named and described over 10,000 reptiles, marking a new milestone in cataloging one of the most diverse vertebrate groups. Last week, the Reptile Database, an online catalog of all the world’s living reptiles, announced it had passed 10,000 species. Go to Source …read more Read more […]
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The North East Reptile Show set to bring a host of exotic animals to the region
By Herp News ALL manner of scaly and spiky creatures will be on show when the North-East Reptile Show returns this weekend. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Where have all the big animals gone? Indian park devoid of many species, further threatened by forest loss
By Herp News Namdapha National Park is part of the Indo-Myanmar biodiversity hotspot. However, locating many species in the park is becoming increasingly difficult, the region has lost thousands of hectares of forest in the past decade, and studies project the situation may simply worsen in the coming years. Go to Source …read more Read […]
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How amphibians crossed continents: DNA helps piece together 300-million-year journey
By Herp News A professor has succeeded in constructing a first-of-its-kind comprehensive diagram of the geographic distribution of amphibians, showing the movement of 3,309 species between 12 global ecoregions. Armed with DNA sequence data, he sought to accurately piece together the 300-million-year storyline of their journey. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com […]
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Turtle-nesting season draws to close
By Herp News This sea turtle hatchling emerged July 29 during an excavation of the first nest laid this season on the beach at Emerald Isle. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Sea turtle gets a clean and scrub from electric yellow fish
By Herp News A photographer in Hawaii has captured the stunning moment dozens of tiny fish operating an underwater 'car wash' latch onto a sea turtle to give it a clean. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Python gets a check-up
How do you examine a snake’s heart? With lots of help. From BBC News: Reticulated pythons are the longest snake species in the world. So it took a team of eight handlers to hold the snake in order that it could be examined. The huge reptile, named JF, is thought to be one of the […]
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Third turtle slaughtered
By Herp News WHO IS butchering turtles and leaving them on the beach? This is the question being asked by upset turtle conservationists as they discovered another turtle dead, the third in two weeks, at King’s Beach, Road View, St Peter, yesterday. Barbados Sea Turtle Project volunteers Caitlin Lanphear and Meghan Bend made the discovery […]
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150-pound tortoise goes on an adventure in Alhambra
By Herp News A 150-pound tortoise found wandering in Alhambra this weekend has been reunited with its family, officials announced Sunday. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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