By Herp News Recent two-week field tests in Nebraska of the Hybrid Public Safety Microphone–or Turtle Mike–allowed law enforcement, medical, fire and rescue and public works personnel to test a merge of land mobile radio (LMR) and broadband systems to enable first responders to communicate with each other. Funded by S&T's First Responders Group (FRG) […]
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Nov 18
Nov 18
Fears confirmed: Texas turtle in trouble
By Herp News Heppell spoke to nearly 200 scientists, government officials and environmentalists at the Second International Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle Symposium, convened to call attention to the sudden reversal of fortunes for the world's most endangered sea turtle. Andre Landry Jr., former director of the Sea Turtle & Fisheries Ecology Research Laboratory at Texas […]
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Rediscovered in 2010, rare Indian frog surprises by breeding in bamboo
By Herp News For a long time, this rare white spotted bush frog lived a secretive life: the Critically Endangered Chalazodes bubble-nest frog (Raorchestes chalazodes) was last seen in 1874 and presumed to be extinct. That is until 2010 when a year-long expedition to try and locate ‘lost’ amphibians in India found the elusive frog […]
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Turtle Sense Tracking When Sea Turtles Will Hatch
By Herp News Technology is helping researchers better predict when sea turtles will hatch. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Why do snakes have two penises?
New research explains why snakes have two penises instead of one. From the Washington Post: In snakes and lizards, the external genitals get a little funkier. These reptiles have paired external genitals, even though they only use one at a time during mating. But all of these genitals spring out of the same embryonic structure, […]
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