By Herp News A 22.5-kilo olive ridley sea turtle measuring almost 2 feet long is released in the waters of the Hundred Islands National Park in Alaminos City last Thursday by a team led by Dr. Westley Rosario of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources and joined by local and Korean members of the […]

By Herp News Green sea turtles may stop basking on beaches around the world within a century due to rising sea temperatures, a new study suggests. Basking helps the turtles regulate body temperature and may aid their immune system and digestion. By analyzing six years of turtle surveys and 24 years of satellite data, researchers […]

By Herp News A rare turtle found washed up on a Cumbrian beach and being cared for at a county aquarium has died. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Green sea turtles may stop basking on beaches around the world within a century due to rising sea temperatures, a new study suggests. Basking helps the turtles regulate body temperature and may aid their immune system and digestion. By analyzing six years of turtle surveys and 24 years of satellite data, researchers […]

By Herp News Dr. Paul Gibbons, managing director of the Behler Chelonian Center in California, is on a mission to save endangered turtles from extinction. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News One of the key members of Lizard Squad tells Forbes an insider was to blame for the database leak of an attack service the crew is offering, not an outside hacker, contrary to previous reports. The group was handing out the database, he claimed, indicating customers of the Lizard Stresser service have […]

By Herp News One of the key members of Lizard Squad tells Forbes an insider was to blame for the database leak of an attack service the crew is offering, not an outside hacker, contrary to previous reports. The group was handing out the database, he claimed, indicating customers of the Lizard Stresser service have […]

By Herp News Tortoise Capital Advisors, L.L.C., the adviser of NDP, NTG, TPZ, TTP and TYG announced today the release of 2014 annual stockholders’ reports for each of these funds. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

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While some species are suffering due to drought, leaf litter frogs are struggling with too much rainfall. From the University of New Mexico Newsroom: Using four different species of leaf litter frogs, they replicated and sampled 10 plots per year, using a plot survey technique of total leaf litter removal within each plot. They measured […]

Back in 1970, while scanning a pricelist from Hank Molt, the name Mt. Kenya bush viper, Atheris desaixii, caught my eye. I was familiar with several species in the genus, but A. desaixii was one that I didn’t know. In those days there was no Google to turn to for information. Even the word computer […]

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By Herp News © Dado Ruvic/Reuters People pose in front of a display showing the word “cyber” in binary code. The hacker cohort Lizard Squad, who gleefully shut down the Xbox Live and PlayStation networks over the holidays, has been hit with a cyberattack on its own network. Go to Source …read more Read more […]

By Herp News Last month, an estimated 350,000 liters of fuel oil spilled into the Sundarbans delta on the Bay of Bengal. An oil tanker that had collided with a cargo vessel on December 9th sank into the Shela River, spilling its oil into a protected sanctuary for the rare and endangered Irrawaddy dolphins (Orcaella […]

By Herp News Camera trap video from Khlong Saeng Wildlife Sanctuary in southern Thailand has revealed an impressive array of wildlife, including scent-marking clouded leopards and a whole herd of Asian elephant. The camera traps were set by HabitatID, an organization devoted to using remote camera traps to prove to government officials that wildlife still […]

By Herp News Camera trap video from Khlong Saeng Wildlife Sanctuary in southern Thailand has revealed an impressive array of wildlife, including scent-marking clouded leopards and a whole herd of Asian elephant. The camera traps were set by HabitatID, an organization devoted to using remote camera traps to prove to government officials that wildlife still […]

By Herp News A new study is sounding the alarm about climate change and its potential impact on more than 30 years of conservation efforts to keep sea turtles around for the next generation. Climate change is causing sea-level rise, and how coastal communities react to that rise could have dire consequences for sea turtles […]

By Herp News A new study is sounding the alarm about climate change and its potential impact on more than 30 years of conservation efforts to keep sea turtles around for the next generation. Climate change is causing sea-level rise, and how coastal communities react to that rise could have dire consequences for sea turtles […]

By Herp News Lizard Squad's “boot-for-hire” service compromised, with more than 14,000 names revealed. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

Axolotls (Ambystoma mexicanum) are a neotenic aquatic salamander that lives exclusively in central Mexico in Lake Xochimilco and Lake Chalco. Axolotls regrettably are as good as extinct in the wild due to their habitat being highly polluted and many invasive fish being introduced to their lake. Although listed as as a “critically endangered” species on […]

Used in food and folk medicine, Thai fishermen may be catching too many sea snakes. From National Geographic: Some scientists are raising concerns about the practice. Little is known about the region’s sea snakes, including what species and how many live there, so it’s not clear whether the harvest is sustainable. An overharvest, these researchers […]

The colorful Malabar pit viper, Trimeresurus malabaricus, is one of the most beautiful snakes one can come across in India. Most herpetologists would agree with this. because malabaricus is found in a stunning variety of color morphs including red, yellow, green, blue, purple, brown, chocolatey, pink, and grey color forms. Usually malabaricus is found on […]

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By Herp News Tortoise Capital Advisors today announced the tax characterization of 2014 distributions paid to stockholders of: Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

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 […]

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

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 […]

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 […]

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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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: […]

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 […]

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 […]

By Herp News Somebody hacked the Lizard Squad's super stupid DDoS-for-hire service last week, and guess what? The Lizard Squad sucks at cybersecurity. Not only did the hackers leave their so-called LizardStresser service vulnerable, the money-hungry kids left all their customers' data in plain text and $11,000 in bitcoin on the table. Read more… Go […]

By Herp News Not only have several members of the Lizard Squad hacking group been arrested lately, but their Lizard Stresser client list has leaked all over the web. The post Lizard Squad chased by police, humbled by fellow hackers appeared first on Digital Trends . Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com […]

By Herp News A two-year comprehensive turtle survey, the first of its kind in Oregon's Clackamas County, has failed to document any trace of the imperiled western pond turtle during its first year of searching, according to a recent report. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Spring Special Also Includes Choice of Added Bonus Offer Worth Up to $1,000 (PRWeb January 19, 2015) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/01/prweb12448468.htm Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News New research details how a preserved fossil found in China could be the oldest record of post-natal parental care from the Middle Jurassic. The specimen, found by a farmer in China, is of an apparent family group with an adult, surrounded by six juveniles of the same species. Given that the smaller […]

Could a universal anti-venom be just around the corner? From Tech Times: Scientists from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) are working toward the development of a universal anti-venom that can be used for the bite of all of the snakes in sub-Saharan Africa with the aid of a new technique dubbed antivenomics. The […]