This Helmeted Iguana or Hernandez’s helmeted basilisk (Corytophanes hernandezi) in our Herp Photo of the day, uploaded by kingsnake.com user chrish is quite the break from our usual. What a regal and stunning animal! Be sure to tell them you liked it here! Upload your own reptile and amphibian photos at gallery.kingsnake.com, and you could […]
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Oct 26
Oct 26
Life on the edge of a habitat is dangerous
By Herp News Intensive farming, sprawling towns, a dense road network — the modern world leaves less and less space for animals and plants. They are forced back into shrinking refuges, which are ever further apart. But not all react equally sensitively. That is even true for members of the same species, as demonstrated by […]
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How snakes lost a blueprint for making limbs
By Herp News Snakes lost their limbs over 100 million years ago, but scientists have struggled to identify the genetic changes involved. A new paper sheds some light on the process, describing a stretch of DNA involved in limb formation that is mutated in snakes. When researchers inserted the snake DNA into mice, the animals […]
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Climate change driving toad disease from fungus in Pyrenees
By Herp News The effect of global warming on fungal disease in frogs and toads has been quantified by researchers for the first time, a new report outlines. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Amazonian frog has its own ant repellent
By Herp News Special chemicals covering the skin of a tiny yellow-striped Amazonian frog provide a protective shield that wards off leaf-cutting ants allowing it to live comfortably among them. The ants do not bite this frog at all, but will quite aggressively attack all other types of frogs or other animals that cross their […]
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African clawed frog genome contains two full sets of chromosomes from 2 two extinct ancestors
By Herp News Millions of years ago, one species of frog diverged into two species. Millions of years later, the two frogs became one again, but with a few extra chromosomes due to whole genome duplication. Such is the curious case of the African clawed frog, a frog whose genome contains nearly double the number […]
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On Philippine isle, research pinpoints ‘bull’s-eye’ of biodiversity
By Herp News Colonial plunder, crime, tribal factions, sectarianism, drug running, piracy, animal poaching, illegal logging and destructive mining practices — all of which add up to wholesale environmental exploitation. The island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines has seen it all and more. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products […]
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How animals sense the rate of temperature change
By Herp News A biologist has uncovered the molecular mechanism that regulates an animal’s ability to sense the rate of temperature change. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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