By Herp News A week ago, I read an article that claimed the infamous Lizard Squad had been dismantled for good, taken down not by the FBI, but by a rival group of “whitehat” hackers, Finest Squad. It's a rather good piece, chronicling how the new group essentially beat the digital vandals at their own […]

By Herp News A large number of Tor relays have popped online, all named some variant of “LizardNSA.” Hmm. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News By and large, Indonesia is a peaceful country. In fact, on the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime’s list of homicide rates, Indonesia ranks number 10, making Indonesians one of the least murderous people on Earth. A ban on gun ownership probably helps, although obviously there are many other ways to […]

By Herp News By and large, Indonesia is a peaceful country. In fact, on the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime’s list of homicide rates, Indonesia ranks number 10, making Indonesians one of the least murderous people on Earth. A ban on gun ownership probably helps, although obviously there are many other ways to […]

By Herp News Chuck Bednar for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online As part of an ongoing attempt to develop underwater robots capable of thinking on their own, engineers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have created a mechanical turtle capable of performing complicated tasks such as surveillance and energy harvesting. In addition, the turtle […]

By Herp News A week ago, I read an article that claimed the infamous Lizard Squad had been dismantled for good, taken down not by the FBI, but by a rival group of “whitehat” hackers, Finest Squad. It's a rather good piece, chronicling how the new group essentially beat the digital vandals at their own […]

Most reptiles and amphibians do better in a captive environment if given a place to hide or burrow. Thankfully there are lots of commercial hides and hide boxes available in all different sizes, shapes, and formats. From simple plastic hides, to elaborate logs and caves, these commercial hides work great if you only have a […]

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Check out this video “Soft Shell Turtle?” submitted by kingsnake.com user freymann. 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

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It’s early Christmas eve and Greg and I doing what we usually do for the Christmas Holidays….avoiding the Christmas Holidays. It’s not that we are Bah-humbug, but Christmas is the longest holiday we have to endure. It starts well before Thanksgiving when the first tv commercial features the sounds of Christmas bells or an outright […]

By Herp News Talk to any avid gamer these days and they’ll tell you about Lizard Squad. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News By mimicking the red and green colors of falling leaves, Bornean lizards avoid falling prey to birds whilst gliding, new research has found. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

The largest amphibian in the UK is a Chinese salamander named Professor Wu. From the London Evening Standard: The 19-year-old has been brought over for a new conservation project to help research ways to prevent the giants from becoming extinct in the wild and was named after one of the project’s partners. Professor Wu is […]

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By Herp News The 41-pound olive ridley sea turtle was discovered Monday on a beach in Oysterville, WA, and is now receiving treatment at the Oregon Coast Aquarium.  Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News © Damian Dovarganes/AP A detail of the Sony Pictures Studios headquarters building is seen in Culver City, Calif., Dec. 19, 2014 An amorphous hacker collective known as Lizard Squad may have played a role in the massive cyberattack against Sony, according to the cybersecurity firm IntelCrawler . The group has attacked Sony […]

By Herp News In 2014, the unimaginable happened: companies representing the majority of palm oil production and trade agreed to stop cutting down rainforests and draining peatlands for new oil palm plantations. After years of intense campaigning by environmentalists and dire warnings from scientists, nearly two dozen major producers, traders, and buyers established zero deforestation […]

By Herp News Attention, reptile enthusiasts: A venomous white cobra that was once loose in Thousand Oaks is now on exhibit at the San Diego Zoo. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

The road we were on could almost have been called “Pygmy Rattler Road.” Actually there were many other herp species found on it, but it was a road that almost never failed to disclose from one to several dusky pygmy rattlesnakes that would vary in size from neonates (in season) to adults of 16 to […]

Contrary to popular beliefs, the most common reptile in rescue is not a giant. I see and receive requests to surrender more water turtles, primarily red eared sliders, than any other reptile. In fact, in one week I will get more requests to surrender sliders than I have received to surrender Burmese pythons in the […]

There’s been a change of judges in the USARK v. USFWS lawsuit about listing big constrictors as injurious species. The case was recently transferred to Judge Raymond Daniel Moss. He will be the third judge assigned to the case. In August, we had been informed that the case had been transferred from Judge Sullivan to […]

A new dinosaur, the size of a large rabbit, is the earliest known horned dinosaur in North America. From IFL Science: Over a decade ago, paleontologists working in the Cloverly Formation of Carbon County, Montana, unearthed the partial skull, lower jaw, and teeth of a small horned dinosaur. Previous work has shown that horned dinosaurs […]

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By Herp News Owning exotic reptiles such as snakes, chameleons, iguanas and geckos could place infants at risk of salmonella infection, according to a British study published on Monday. Researchers in the southwestern English county of Cornwall found that out of 175 cases of salmonella in children under five over a three-year period, 27 percent […]

By Herp News Biologists describe upwards of 15,000 previously undocumented species every year. Some of these species are complete surprises, sometimes representing new genera. Others may be identified after genetic analysis distinguishes them from closely-related species. Some — especially conspicuous birds and mammals — are already known to local populations, but hadn’t been formally described […]

By Herp News Biologists at the University of Porto, in Portugal, have found that the Iberian emerald lizards' skin reflects light in different ways depending on what angle it is being viewed at. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News On November 3, 2014, I woke up to check my flight status from Bangalore to New York. What I found when I opened my laptop was a mindboggling amount of emails, hate mail, death threats, and interview requests. The numbers were staggering. The night before, the Discovery Channel had aired the first […]

By Herp News A team of mechanical engineers has used the same scientific principles employed by the sticky feet of geckos to create a superhero climbing device. With patents pending, they are poised to wrap their sticky fingers around some hard cash. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon […]

Mid-August in the Deep South is hot and muggy, so we wanted to get an early start to our hike. This morning we were going to flip some boards before the sun made conditions too hot for anything to utilize them as cover. Across a dirt road where a forest of oak, pine, and magnolia […]

Some scientists predict we are heading toward a mass extinction event. From the Guardian: A stark depiction of the threat hanging over the world’s mammals, reptiles, amphibians and other life forms has been published by the prestigious scientific journal, Nature. A special analysis carried out by the journal indicates that a staggering 41% of all […]

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By Herp News At the start of December, a notorious hacker gang named “Lizard Squad” issued a threat: it would take down over Christmas the PlayStation and Xbox Live networks, the online services that some video games need in order run from a home console. Despite most hackers being “in it for the lulz” — […]

By Herp News A pre-Jurassic era fossil of a carnivorous marine reptile has been found on a beach in south Wales. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News London, Dec 21 (IANS) A pre-Jurassic era fossil of a carnivorous marine reptile has been found on a beach in south Wales. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News BACK TO THE WILD: Ben Nadler from Australian Seabird Rescue releases Shelayne the green sea turtle at Flat Rock. Cathy Adams Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Ssonoma, Calif.– K-PAX Racing, the only team campaigning McLaren sports cars in North America, is partnering with Flying Lizard Motorsports to manage its racecar program for the 2015 Pirelli World Challenge season. K-PAX will draw upon Flying Lizard’s diverse, international racing and logistics expertise throughout the upcoming season. K-PAX and Flying Lizard […]

By Herp News A 7-foot-long, fossilized skeleton of an extinct marine reptile has been discovered in the U.K. Jonathan Bow, a 34-year-old computer programmer, found what's believed to be an ichthyosaur fossil as he walked along Penarth Beach in South Wales with his brother, Wales Online reported Friday . “Something this large and complete is […]

By Herp News Seemingly every year scientists set a new record with the number of species they describe. 2014 will be no exception. Below are some of the ‘new species’ highlights from the past year. The list includes species whose descriptions were first published in 2014. Some of the ‘discoveries’ occurred in years prior. Go […]