Today is Nag Panchami, a traditional day of worship of snakes or serpents observed by Hindus throughout India and also in Nepal. On the Nag Panchami day Nag, cobras, and snakes are worshiped with milk, sweets, flowers, lamps and even sacrifices. Images of Nag deities made of silver, stone, wood, or paintings on the wall […]
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Aug 19
Aug 19
Global warming lethal to baby lizards: Nests become heat traps
By Herp News The expected impact of climate change on North American lizards is much worse than first thought. A team of biologists has discovered that lizard embryos die when subjected to a temperature of 110 degrees Fahrenheit even for a few minutes. They also discovered a bias in previous studies, which ignored early life […]
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Summer of Serpent mother: Saw-Scaled Viper.
This was a time in summer when I as usual was free and always ready to go herping. Diveghat is half an hour away from my house where before the dawn deer’s were spotted and every Sunday I rode there in the hope to see something new and that day I was lucky enough to […]
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Herp Photo of the Day: Gecko
Happy Hump Day! May this adorable pair of Lygodactylus williamsi in our herp photo of the day brighten your midweek, uploaded by kingsnake.com user jamesmatthews ! Be sure to tell jamesmatthews 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 Read […]
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