By Herp News Thanks to a thin layer of tissue that covers the heart called the epicardium, zebrafish are able to regrow damaged cardiac tissue. New research has shown that the epicardium is able to heal not only the heart, but also itself, when damaged, and it revealed the signaling molecule responsible for initiating the […]
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Oct 12
Oct 12
Zebrafish may hold key to heart regeneration
By Herp News Thanks to a thin layer of tissue that covers the heart called the epicardium, zebrafish are able to regrow damaged cardiac tissue. New research has shown that the epicardium is able to heal not only the heart, but also itself, when damaged, and it revealed the signaling molecule responsible for initiating the […]
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New study argues ‘land sparing’ is better for the birds
By Herp News What’s the best way to save life on Earth? Should we set aside huge blocks of wilderness and intensively farm the rest or should we create a mosaic ecosystem – i.e., a quilt-like mix of farms, forests and everything in-between? Conservationists, ecologists and farmers have been passionately debating this dichotomy – what […]
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The Muriqui: Brazil’s critically endangered “hippie monkey” hangs tough
By Herp News Northern muriqui monkeys from the wild population in RPPN Feliciano Miguel Abdala, previously known as the Estação Biológica de Caratinga. This privately owned ranch is the site of the longest-running large mammal research project in Brazil, led by University of Wisconsin-Madison anthropologist Karen Strier for 33 years. Photo courtesy of Carla B. […]
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New Jungle Carpet Super Form!
Isn’t this Jungle Carpet Python crazy looking?! It is one of a kind and a Super Form from what the Ball Python Crowd refers to as a, “Dinker Project.” I noticed that the mother of this snake looked just a bit odd when it was a baby. I bought her, bred her, and then bred […]
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Rare Salamander Found in Guatemala
Photo: Robin Moore/ILCP Called the “Golden Wonder” by conservationists, the Jackson’s Climbing Salamander, Bolitoglossa jacksoni, has not been seen since 1977. This field report chronicles the search for the Golden Wonder, as well as many other great and rare amphibian finds. “When I spied that oh so familiar pose of a Long-limbed Salamander basking in […]
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Herp Photo of the Day: Watersnake
This sassy lil watersnake had to stop and eat a toad in the yard before the photographer captured it for our herp photo of the day uploaded by kingsnake.com user dinahmoe ! Be sure to tell them you liked it here! Upload your own reptile and amphibian photos photos at gallery.kingsnake.com, and you could see […]
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