By Herp News SAN DIEGO, Dec. 15, 2014 /PRNewswire/ –Turtle Beach, the leading audio brand in the video games industry, today announced that Superhuman Hearing and Mic Monitoring will be featured in two new officially … Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

A captive breeding program and removal of invasive goats has helped Española Galapagos tortoises improve their numbers from 15 to 1500. From treehugger.com: How was the Española population of giant tortoise saved? The Galapagos Islands National Park Service began a program of captive breeding and reintroduction in 1973. Using an enclosure on another island to […]

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By Herp News Living here in the desert, you've probably seen your fair share of reptiles, like snakes and lizards, roaming around. Some people are afraid of them, but the Repticon show in the valley this weekend shows us that reptiles aren't so scary and are actually pretty cool.Thousands of exotic animals will be at […]

By Herp News Fossilized remains of the kryptodrakon progenitor (“hidden dragon”), which evolved into the largest flying creatures ever to inhabit earth, were discovered in northwest China, where Ang Lee's Oscar-winning film was shot. read more Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Fossilized remains of the kryptodrakon progenitor (“hidden dragon”), which evolved into the largest flying creatures ever to inhabit earth, were discovered in northwest China, where Ang Lee's Oscar-winning film was shot. read more Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Fossilized remains of the kryptodrakon progenitor (“hidden dragon”), which evolved into the largest flying creatures ever to inhabit earth, were discovered in northwest China, where the Oscar-winning film was shot. read more Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News When you’re a critically endangered hawksbill sea turtle, any news is usually bad news. But not today. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Hacking group the 'Lizard Squad' has claimed responsibility for an outage which took down the web login page for the PSN this morning, marring a weekend of celebration and PR for PlayStation on its 20th anniversary. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Down in Baja California there crawls a beast so bizarre, so cruel, so foul, that the mere mention of it sends locals scurrying. It’s an opportunist, said to attack humans at their most vulnerable moment: potty time. The post Absurd Creature of the Week: The Adorable Mexican Mole Lizard Has a Disgusting […]

By Herp News Short of buying back logging concessions, switching from conventional logging approaches to reduced impact logging techniques across existing forestry concessions may be the best way boost biodiversity in areas earmarked for timber extraction, argues paper. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

There’s nothing like really bad science and equally bad reality TV to make problems for reptile rescuers. Discovery Channel, in their brilliant glory, ran a farce of a documentary last weekend where a man got into a snake proof suit, slathered himself in pigs blood and then pretended like he was going to be “Eaten […]

By Herp News Down in Baja California there crawls a beast so bizarre, so cruel, so foul, that the mere mention of it sends locals scurrying. It’s an opportunist, said to attack humans at their most vulnerable moment: potty time. The post Absurd Creature of the Week: The Adorable Mexican Mole Lizard Has a Disgusting […]

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By Herp News Brazilian biologist Alex Bager has been leading a crusade to raise awareness of a major but neglected threat to biodiversity in his country. Every year over 475 million animals die in Brazil as victims of roadkill, according to an estimate by Centro Brasileiro de Ecologia de Estradas, an initiative funded and coordinated […]

By Herp News Scientists noticed a dramatic increase in nesting of critically endangered hawksbill sea turtles including the highest nest counts since a conservation project began there in 2000. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Tortoise Capital Advisors, adviser for five closed-end funds, today announced that Alexandra Herger will join the current Board of Directors of its closed-end funds on Jan. 1, 2015. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

I can still remember turning the big flagstone that was out by the day lily bed and seeing my very first snake. I was probably 6 or 7 and had already turned a lot of stones in my short lifetime. I found toads and stag beetles and star-nosed moles – enough things so that I […]

Have you seen the titanboa exhibit? From NJ.com: Twice as long as the longest snake alive today, Titanoboa was discovered in 2009 by a team of scientists working in one of the world’s largest open-pit coal mines at Cerrejón in La Guajira, Colombia. Fossil plants, giant turtles and crocodiles found with it deep underground reveal […]

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By Herp News Researchers have found genetic evidence that highly toxic venom proteins were evolutionarily ‘born’ from non-toxic genes, which have other ordinary jobs around the body, such as regulation of cellular functions or digestion of food. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Tortoise Capital Advisors announced the following special distributions today: Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News In 1912, a group of intrepid explorers led by Rollo and Ida Beck, widely acknowledged to be the foremost marine bird collectors of their time, embarked on a most remarkable effort to catalogue South America’s oceanic birds. Museums of the day held opportunistically collected specimens from scattered sources, but rarely did these […]

Almost 200 sea turtles suffering from hypothermia were removed from chilly Massachusetts Bay and flown to warmer waters. From the Orlando Sentinel: Turtle rescues happen every year in late fall in the Northeast, but for reasons not yet known what’s happening this year is “epic,” said one of the nearly two dozen volunteers passing boxes […]

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By Herp News A little tortoise with a metabolic bone disease has had mobility returned thanks to a Lego rig glued to his shell. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News A turtle found in the Northern Territory close to death and with a fishing hook through its neck which tethered it to a tree has been released back into the wild after being nursed back to health. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News A turtle found in the Northern Territory close to death and hanging from a tree with a hook through its neck has been released back into the wild after being nursed back to health. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Armen Shahrigian will star in a new reality-based show that showcases his passion and knowledge of reptiles. Shahrigian has had a fascination with reptiles since he… Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News For the first time, marine conservation group, Sea Shepherd, is employing their controversial methods to protect Antarctic and Patagonian toothfish. Dubbed ‘Operation Icefish,’ Sea Shepherd Australia is sending two ships into Antarctic waters to disrupt illegal vessels targeting the little-known species that are often sold in luxury markets as Chilean seabass. Go […]

In rural southeast Alabama , where gently rolling red hills transition into the sandy soil of the lower coastal plain, lives one of Alabama’s most beautiful snakes. The eastern kingsnake Lampropeltis getula getula, known by the old timers as “The Swamp Wamper,” calls this region home. The eastern kingsnake has a large distribution in the […]

By Herp News While unpleasant car exhaust makes us wrinkle our noses, such human-made fumes may pose serious problems to insects searching for nectar. Researchers recently revealed that background odors make finding flowers difficult for pollinators. The study, published in Science, measured how hawk moths (Manduca sexta) pick out the sacred datura flower scent (Datura […]

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Commercial fog is great for haunted houses, night clubs, and herpetological research? From National Geographic: Colleen Farmer used it to study how an iguana breathes. She threaded an endoscope—a tube with a light and a camera at the end—into the lizard’s nose, while allowing it to inhale the artificial smoke from a fog machine. The […]

From Maine to Ontario and Florida to Texas, you may encounter the little turtle known vernacularly as the “stinkpot” and more formerly as the common musk turtle, Sternotherus odoratus. The names, both common and scientific, are derived from the odorous secretions produced by the two musk glands: one on each side of the plastron where […]

By Herp News The venomous white cobra captured in Thousand Oaks in September is soon to emerge from quarantine at the San Diego Zoo and go on exhibit. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News The PSN went offline Sunday night, with hacking group Lizard Squad taking responsibility for the attack. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News The chances of long-term survival for the Pacific gecko have been boosted with the release of 54 of the threatened native reptiles on pest-free Motuihe Island / Te Motu-a-Ihenga in Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf / Tīkapa Moana. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Two reptile dealers were sentenced to prison for trafficking animals out of the state. Prosecutors say, between 2006 and 2008, the men collected protected snakes from the wild in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links