By Herp News First came the horn From knee joints to human organs, and from prosthetics for pets to guns, it seems that the limits of 3D printing are bound only by imagination. Taking 3D printing to the next step are the founders of a start-up company, Pembient, who want to print synthetic rhino horns. The […]
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Jan 05
Jan 05
Peeper Season
The spring peeper’s species name, “crucifer,” is derived from the dorsal X (the crucifix). In many areas spring peepers, Pseudacris crucifer ssp., a common chorus frog that ranges from eastern Texas to eastern Manitoba then eastward to Newfoundland to northern Florida is actually a spring breeder, but in the deep southeast it is a late […]
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Snakes show that eating can be bad for your health
By Herp News Eating increases the amount of damaging reactive molecules in the body, potentially shaping and constraining life history evolution across animal groups, new research on snakes shows. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Jokowi’s plan to free captive birds earns unexpected backlash
By Herp News On Sunday, Joko “Jokowi” Widodo released 190 birds into the wild outside the Presidential Palace in Bogor, a suburb of Jakarta. “We have to protect the ecosystem,” the Indonesian president wrote on Twitter over the weekend. He did it in the name of preserving nature in urban areas, but some conservationists responded with one […]
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Facebook posts lead to arrest of two suspected tortoise thieves
By Herp News Thailand officials have arrested two people in connection with the sale of critically endangered Burmese star tortoises on Facebook, according to an announcement by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). The officials were first tipped off about the Facebook ads in October 2015. They began monitoring the profile of the person offering to […]
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Herp Photo of the Day: Chameleon
Let’s kick off the day with this gorgeous Furcifer pardalis Ambilobe in our Herp Photo of the day, uploaded by kingsnake.com user BIONCENTER! Be sure to tell them you liked it here! Have a safe New Years Eve! Upload your own reptile and amphibian photos photos at gallery.kingsnake.com, and you could see them featured here! […]
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