Frankie is a one-hundred and five pound potential disaster when ever he sets himself in motion….or refuses to get into motion. Frankie targets are walls, buckets, ceramic pots, door steps, cricket containers, boxes, and regretfully, more personal objects like my fingers, toes, shins, back, muscles, tendons, etc., or in general, ME. I sport numerous Frankie […]
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Apr 15
Apr 15
Expert panel rebukes Japan’s new whaling proposal
By Herp News Last year, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that Japan must halt its whaling activities in the Southern Ocean as it found no evidence that the killing of hundreds of Antarctic minke whales was scientifically justified. The ruling sent Japan scrambling for a new plan to continue its ‘scientific’ whale hunt. […]
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Expert panel rebukes Japan’s new whaling proposal
By Herp News Last year, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that Japan must halt its whaling activities in the Southern Ocean as it found no evidence that the killing of hundreds of Antarctic minke whales was scientifically justified. The ruling sent Japan scrambling for a new plan to continue its ‘scientific’ whale hunt. […]
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Expert panel rebukes Japan’s new whaling proposal
By Herp News Last year, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that Japan must halt its whaling activities in the Southern Ocean as it found no evidence that the killing of hundreds of Antarctic minke whales was scientifically justified. The ruling sent Japan scrambling for a new plan to continue its ‘scientific’ whale hunt. […]
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The uncommon blue striped garter snake
Typically, when people think about the garter snakes, the first member of the genus they think of is the eastern garter snake, Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis. This member of the Thamnophis genus is quite common and has a broad range here in North America with many color phases. They can be found in just about any […]
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Antivenom made from opossums may reduce cost of treating snake bites
Some costly antivenoms may soon be replaced by opossum blood. From Chemistry World: But treatments are costly and inaccessible for many people. Most antivenoms are made by injecting dilute venom into a mammal, such as a horse or rabbit. This results in an immune response, and the animal’s serum is then processed so that it […]
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Antivenom made from opposums may reduce cost of treating snake bites
Some costly antivenoms may soon be replaced by opossum blood. From Chemistry World: But treatments are costly and inaccessible for many people. Most antivenoms are made by injecting dilute venom into a mammal, such as a horse or rabbit. This results in an immune response, and the animal’s serum is then processed so that it […]
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Herp Photo of the Day: Sidewinder
Poised and ready to make a sideways retreat this Crotalus cerastes shows us it’s beauty in our herp photo of the day, uploaded by kingsnake.com user Ryan-reptilian! Be sure to tell Ryan-reptilian you liked it here! Upload your own reptile and amphibian photos photos at gallery.kingsnake.com, and you could see them featured here! …read more […]
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