Planned for the Tottenham Hotspur football club, a new athletic facility has halted development because the land is home to great crested newts. From the Irish Mirror: “Surveys confirmed the presence of a medium-sized breeding population of great crested newt within the pond on site, and individual long-eared and common pipistrelle bats roosting in the […]
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Mar 03
Mar 03
Chicken turtles wander, but they aren't lost
It was late spring, in the Apalachicola National Forest (ANF) and I happened to have an hour to kill before meeting Kenny for a couple of days of herping. I was within a few miles of a favorite puddle, so decided to stop by for a hurried visit. During the winter this bit of water […]
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Herp Photo of the Day: Hatchling spiny turtle
This hatchling Gulf Coast spiny softshell gives us just enough of the “awwws” to make it through a Tuesday in our herp photo of the day, uploaded by kingsnake.com user gambusia! Be sure to tell gambusia you liked it here! Upload your own reptile and amphibian photos photos at gallery.kingsnake.com, and you could see them […]
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