By Herp News NEWPORT, Ore. (AP) — A sea turtle that was rescued from frigid Northwest waters and treated at the Oregon Coast Aquarium has caught a ride back to California on a Coast Guard training flight. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Rescued sea turtle Solstice catching ride from Oregon to California on Coast Guard flight Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News The Alberta SPCA says they’ve found a new home for dozens of cold-blooded critters from a Drumheller zoo. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News A baby caiman has found a new home at a Lithuanian zoo after its previous owner tried to sell it online, apparently upon realizing that the pet reptile he was raising in his bathroom wasn't a harmless lizard. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto […]

By Herp News Reptile returns. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — A baby caiman has found a new home at a Lithuanian zoo after its previous owner tried to sell it online, apparently upon realizing that the pet reptile he was raising in his bathroom wasn't a harmless lizard. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No […]

By Herp News Shane McConnell, Little Rays Reptile Zoo director of marketing and sponsorship, let a visitor hold a tarantula during the Wildlife Festival held at the Royal Canadian Legion Hall on Feb. 18. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News London, Feb 24 (ANI): A Russian councilor has claimed that President Vladimir Putin is controlled by 'reptile aliens' who have also been advising him on the ongoing Ukraine conflict. According to Daily Star, Simon Parkes, the Labour councillor, who represents Whitby in North Yorkshire, believes the reptiles, named the “The Nordics”, are […]

By Herp News The fossil of a prehistoric 9-foot-long carnivorous reptile that had sharp, serrated teeth is helping researchers fill out the early branches of the reptile family tree, according to a new study. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News FAMILIES will soon be able to get up close with snakes, lizards and tortoises after plans for a huge reptile house were unveiled. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Lizards and other reptiles are not normally considered venomous, but a number of lizard species actually do produce and use venom. The most classic venomous lizard is no doubt the gila monster — a heavy-bodied lizard. As the first in the world, a group of researchers has made a comprehensive description of […]

Since I live in Gainesville, Florida, and since blue and orange is the official color scheme of the University of Florida football team the Gators, it is only reasonable to think that I’m writing about football. And if I gave a twit about the game, perhaps I would be. But the blue and orange I’m […]

A new water frog species was discovered in a place thought to be thoroughly explored. From sci-news.com: The specific name ventriflavum comes from the Latin venter, meaning belly, and flavus, meaning yellow and refers to the golden yellow and orange coloration on the body. The populations of several species of the water frog genus Telmatobius […]

What is it about frogs that just make us smile? They pose without realizing it! This cute gray tree frog is just hanging out in our herp photo of the day, uploaded by kingsnake.com user gerryg! Be sure to tell gerryg you liked it here! Upload your own reptile and amphibian photos photos at gallery.kingsnake.com, […]

By Herp News Gumbo Limbo Nature Center is ready for at least 3,500 visitors, last year's count for the annual Sea Turtle Day on Saturday, the annual kickoff for sea turtle nesting season March through October. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News The world’s largest rodent today is the capybara, weighing in at around at about 45 kilograms (100 pounds), though the record breaking female weight in at 91 kilograms (201 pounds). But that’s nothing compared to the biggest rodent ever to live. Discovered in Uruguay in 2008, Josephoartigasia monesi may have weighed in […]

The checkered keelback, Xenochrophis piscator, is one of the most commonly found water snakes in the Indian subcontinent. I call it “the serpentine mermaid” due to its aquatic habitat and a beautiful checkered pattern on its body personifying a mermaid. The word “keelback” describes rough scales in every keelback snake. This snake appears to have […]

Conjoined Quince monitor lizard twin, who were dead before hatching, were found in a zoo in 2009. From Live Science: It is possible that the reason the lizards were conjoined was partly due to the low amount of genetic variation that stemmed from having parents that were siblings, according to the report. In 2002, research […]

kingsnake.com has launched a new cassified ad directory of those who have an active profile in our vendor profile system, which launched last year. Listing in the directory is free with the purchase of a classified advertising account, and the listing stays active while the classified account is active. If the classified account expires or […]

Despite being treated as one of the most ‘disposable’ of reptile pets, their regal nature is unmistakeable. Gotta love big green iguanas like this female in our herp photo of the day, uploaded by kingsnake.com user cycluracornuta! Be sure to tell cycluracornuta you liked it here! Upload your own reptile and amphibian photos photos at […]

By Herp News A full-grown adult hawksbill turtle was caught tangled and injured in a fish pen in Masbate City Monday morning. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Hunters are frustrated as turtle gobbling hogs disappear from North Island, but wildlife biologists are delighted. Click to Continue » Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News It’s that crazy time of year again, World Pangolin Day, where we feverishly run out into the streets and join the thousands of pangolin protectors, fighting for the survival of our scaly friend. Well, no actually, hold on, what’s a pangolin? Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products […]

By Herp News This article A Missing Turtle Brings Father & Son Closer originally appeared on Viddsee BUZZ. Ah Kwan and his dad are distraught because their beloved pet turtle has gone missing. The father and son leave no stone unturned in their search. It is during this hunt that some unspoken words come to the forefront. As they […]

By Herp News This article A Missing Turtle Brings Father & Son Closer originally appeared on Viddsee BUZZ. Ah Kwan and his dad are distraught because their beloved pet turtle has gone missing. The father and son leave no stone unturned in their search. It is during this hunt that some unspoken words come to the forefront. As they […]

After waiting 80 days, a clutch of bearded dragons finally begin pipping and hatching! Talk about taking it to the limit! What is the longest your eggs have gone? Submit your own reptile & amphibian videos at http://www.kingsnake.com/video/ and you could see them featured here or check out all the videos submitted by other users! […]

This adorable drested gecko reminds us that it’s always 5 o’clock somewhere! See why in our herp photo of the day, uploaded by kingsnake.com user BryanD! Be sure to tell Bryan 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 […]

By Herp News AUSTIN – In 2012, a tiny lizard posed a big problem amid the pipelines and pump jacks in booming West Texas. There was talk within a federal agency about protecting the dunes sagebrush lizard as an en Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News SIBU – Many fear that an endangered 100kg soft-shell turtle caught by a fisherman in Daro may end up in the cooking pot for a mere RM2,000 (S$750). The fisherman who caught the turtle, which is believed to be 50 years old, has said that he plans to sell it in the […]

One of the most characteristic sounds of the neotropical rain forests is a rather mournful whooping call that is often heard at dusk on rainy or very humid nights, but which may sometimes be heard well after the tropical darkness has fallen. Although many have heard this call, used in motion pictures and other sound […]

One police officer brought a blue-tongued lizard into the station 30 years ago, and lizards have had a home there ever since. From ABC News Australia: The site now has a purpose built courtyard for the lizards which are mascots for the station. Cheryl Hackett, the Belconnen Station’s administrator, said being the chief lizard carer […]

If all snow was as beautiful as this snow splash sand boa, we might look forward to winter more. See the beautiful coloring in our herp photo of the day, uploaded by kingsnake.com user SerpentsPlus! Be sure to tell SerpentsPlus you liked it here! Upload your own reptile and amphibian photos photos at gallery.kingsnake.com, and […]

By Herp News For 150 years, scientists have known of just two so-called seadragons: the leafy seadragon and the weedy seadragon. But a new paper in the Royal Society Open Science has announced the discovery of a third, dubbed the ruby seadragon for its incredible bright-red coloring. Found only off the southern Australian coastline, seadragons […]

Internal USFWS/DOI politics over the status of the dunes sagebrush lizard have cost a field agent his career and shed light on policy decisions at the DOI that bring into question the agency’s compliance with the Endangered Species Act. The Houston Chronicle reports the decision as to whether or not the dunes sagebrush lizard would […]

By Herp News By examining research on global patterns of amphibian diversification over hundreds of millions of years, researchers have discovered that ‘sexually dimorphic’ species — those in which males and females differ in size, for example — are at lower risk of extinction and better able to adapt to diverse environments. Go to Source […]

When most people think of amphibians, they think of newts, frogs, toads, and salamanders. Very rarely do you see people keeping or talking about yet another species that we know as caecilians. Caecilians are amphibians easily mistaken for a slimy earthworm or snake. But as we take a deeper look at this species, we see […]

The alligator population in North Carolina is growing, but allowing a hunting season may hurt their long-term security. From newsobserver.com: Moorman, coordinator of N.C. State’s fisheries, wildlife and conservation biology program, said he couldn’t estimate the state’s overall population. He said the survey didn’t try to tabulate all possible gators. They’ve shown up in recent […]

By Herp News A female leatherback turtle weighing hundreds of pounds crawled onto Singer Island one night last week, becoming the first known sea turtle to lay eggs in South Florida this year. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

This copperhead is proof gold isn’t the most precious of metals. See what we mean in our herp photo of the day, uploaded by kingsnake.com user HerpLver! Be sure to tell HerpLver 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 […]

By Herp News A female leatherback turtle weighing hundreds of pounds crawled onto Singer Island one night last week, becoming the first known sea turtle to lay eggs in South Florida this year. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links