By Herp News A quantum light source demonstrates that light-sensitive cells in frog eyes can detect single photons. Miniature light detectors in frog eyes known as retinal rod cells are directly and unambiguously shown to detect single photons of light — an astounding sensitivity considering that a humble 60 watt light bulb spews out a […]
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Jan 20
Jan 20
Virginia Tech Paleontologist Names a Carnivorous Reptile That Preceded Dinosaurs
By Herp News Paleontologist Sterling Nesbitt's latest addition to the paleontological vernacular is Nundasuchus, a 9-foot-long carnivorous reptile with steak knifelike teeth and bony plates on the back. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Aww! Primordial Reptile Fossils Show Mother Caring for Babies
By Herp News The fossilized remains of a small aquatic reptile surrounded by six babies suggest that the extinct animal was caring for the little ones when they died, a new study finds. The reptile is an extinct species called the philydrosaurus, and likely lived during the Early Cretaceous, a time period that spans about […]
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Cambodia home to new legless amphibian
Easily confused for snakes, a new type of caecilian, or legless amphibian, has been discovered. From phys.org: “The I.cardamomensis species is only the second caecilian species ever discovered in Cambodia. The other is the striped Koa Tao Island caecilian, I. kohtaoensis, which is also found in, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. These discoveries are important […]
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Our house survived a spurred tortoise
The tortoise, a foot long African spurred tortoise, Geochelone (Centrochelys) sulcata, had been dropped in the tortoise yard. In the morning we had no African spurred tortoise and didn’t really want one, then in the afternoon we had one. Spontaneous turtle and tortoise acquisition had happened to us before, but this was our first unaccounted […]
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Herp Photo of the Day: Nuu Ana Leachianus!
It’s our herp photo of the day, uploaded by kingsnake.com user MikeRusso! Upload your own reptile and amphibian photos photos at gallery.kingsnake.com, and you could see them featured here! …read more Read more here: King Snake No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Lizard Squad DDoS-for-hire website compromised, stored passwords in plain text
By Herp News The Lizard Squad, an Internet mayhem group, has recently been caught with their proverbial pants down when an attacker compromised the customer database of the group’s recently released distributed denial of service (DDoS) for hire service. The service, the “Lizard … Continue reading → Go to Source …read more Read more here: […]
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Frankie Tortoise Tails – Inside Outside
Frankie has been indoors almost every day since Christmas. He is not happy with me. “I hate you, mom.” His indoor space isn’t very big so he is very annoyed. “Something in this gecko room is coming down. Plastic barrier is not going to keep me from ramming garbage can or the humidifier.” It’s all […]
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Lizard Squad’s Plaintext Customer List Leaked As Another Member Is Arrested
By Herp News The Lizard Squad, the group of hackers credited with taking down Xbox Live and PSN over the holiday, have been compromised and much of their data leaked. Brian Krebs received a listing of the Lizard Squad’s LizardStresser customer database and noted that the group made about $11,000 in bitcoin serving up denial-of-service […]
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