By Herp News A quantum light source demonstrates that light-sensitive cells in frog eyes can detect single photons. Miniature light detectors in frog eyes known as retinal rod cells are directly and unambiguously shown to detect single photons of light — an astounding sensitivity considering that a humble 60 watt light bulb spews out a […]

By Herp News Paleontologist Sterling Nesbitt's latest addition to the paleontological vernacular is Nundasuchus, a 9-foot-long carnivorous reptile with steak knifelike teeth and bony plates on the back. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News The fossilized remains of a small aquatic reptile surrounded by six babies suggest that the extinct animal was caring for the little ones when they died, a new study finds. The reptile is an extinct species called the philydrosaurus, and likely lived during the Early Cretaceous, a time period that spans about […]

Easily confused for snakes, a new type of caecilian, or legless amphibian, has been discovered. From phys.org: “The I.cardamomensis species is only the second caecilian species ever discovered in Cambodia. The other is the striped Koa Tao Island caecilian, I. kohtaoensis, which is also found in, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. These discoveries are important […]

The tortoise, a foot long African spurred tortoise, Geochelone (Centrochelys) sulcata, had been dropped in the tortoise yard. In the morning we had no African spurred tortoise and didn’t really want one, then in the afternoon we had one. Spontaneous turtle and tortoise acquisition had happened to us before, but this was our first unaccounted […]

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By Herp News The Lizard Squad, an Internet mayhem group, has recently been caught with their proverbial pants down when an attacker compromised the customer database of the group’s recently released distributed denial of service (DDoS) for hire service. The service, the “Lizard … Continue reading → Go to Source …read more Read more here: […]

Frankie has been indoors almost every day since Christmas. He is not happy with me. “I hate you, mom.” His indoor space isn’t very big so he is very annoyed. “Something in this gecko room is coming down. Plastic barrier is not going to keep me from ramming garbage can or the humidifier.” It’s all […]

By Herp News  The Lizard Squad, the group of hackers credited with taking down Xbox Live and PSN over the holiday, have been compromised and much of their data leaked. Brian Krebs received a listing of the Lizard Squad’s LizardStresser customer database and noted that the group made about $11,000 in bitcoin serving up denial-of-service […]

By Herp News Somebody hacked the Lizard Squad's super stupid DDoS-for-hire service last week, and guess what? The Lizard Squad sucks at cybersecurity. Not only did the hackers leave their so-called LizardStresser service vulnerable, the money-hungry kids left all their customers' data in plain text and $11,000 in bitcoin on the table. Read more… Go […]

By Herp News Not only have several members of the Lizard Squad hacking group been arrested lately, but their Lizard Stresser client list has leaked all over the web. The post Lizard Squad chased by police, humbled by fellow hackers appeared first on Digital Trends . Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com […]

By Herp News A two-year comprehensive turtle survey, the first of its kind in Oregon's Clackamas County, has failed to document any trace of the imperiled western pond turtle during its first year of searching, according to a recent report. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Spring Special Also Includes Choice of Added Bonus Offer Worth Up to $1,000 (PRWeb January 19, 2015) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/01/prweb12448468.htm Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News New research details how a preserved fossil found in China could be the oldest record of post-natal parental care from the Middle Jurassic. The specimen, found by a farmer in China, is of an apparent family group with an adult, surrounded by six juveniles of the same species. Given that the smaller […]

Could a universal anti-venom be just around the corner? From Tech Times: Scientists from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) are working toward the development of a universal anti-venom that can be used for the bite of all of the snakes in sub-Saharan Africa with the aid of a new technique dubbed antivenomics. The […]

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By Herp News Flying Lizard is making a long-awaited return to running Porsche 911s, only it's not where you'd expect. In addition to announcing a third customer McLaren 650S to run in Pirelli World Challenge today, Flying Lizard said that they will field a two-car customer effort in the Pirelli Porsche GT3 Cup. Read more… […]

By Herp News A counter-hack against the Lizard Squad hacking group's distributed denial of service (DDoS) tool LizardStresser has resulted in a customer data theft. Details of 14,241 users' user names, passwords, and other data, store in plain text, has been stolen from the group and posted online…. Go to Source …read more Read more […]

By Herp News A counter-hack against the Lizard Squad hacking group's distributed denial of service (DDoS) tool LizardStresser has resulted in a customer data theft. Details of 14,241 users' user names, passwords, and other data, store in plain text, has been stolen from the group and posted online…. Go to Source …read more Read more […]

An adult female Gulf Coast spiny softshell turtle, Trionyx spiniferus asper, can be a rather large, somewhat difficult turtle to handle. Their long neck, strong jaws and willingness to defend themselves when cornered can leave a lasting impression. We encountered such a female while walking around at a local fish hatchery one afternoon. She was […]

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By Herp News It's a sea turtle mystery that has stumped scientists for decades: How does the female sea turtle, which travels across thousands of miles of open ocean each year, still manage to navigate back to the same beach where she hatched to lay her eggs? Go to Source …read more Read more here: […]

By Herp News In the last 500 years, the oceans have suffered far fewer extinctions than on land—at least that we know of. According to a recent study in Science, 15 animals are known to have vanished forever from the oceans while terrestrial ecosystems have seen 514 extinctions. The researchers, however, warn that the number […]

By Herp News This is obvious, but still important: humans are not a marine species. Even as we have colonized most of our planet’s terrestrial landscapes, we have not yet colonized the oceans. And for most of our history, we have impacted them only on the periphery. A new review in Science finds that this […]

By Herp News Adult sea turtles find their way back to the beaches where they hatched by seeking out unique magnetic signatures along the coast, according to new evidence. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News It's a sea turtle mystery that has stumped scientists for decades: How does the female sea turtle, which travels across thousands of miles of open ocean each year, still manage to navigate back to the same beach where she hatched to lay her eggs? Go to Source …read more Read more here: […]

Think all frogs lay eggs? Think again. From ScienceBlogs: A new species of frog (Limnonectes larvaepartus) has been discovered in the rain forest of Sulawesi island in Indonesia. This species challenges the grade-school wisdom that taught us: ‘frogs lay eggs’. It looks like textbooks will need to be revised as this is the only known […]

About a half a mile from our house there is a small drainage culvert that channels water from a small neighborhood lake and wetland, beneath a busy highway, and into the Paynes Prairie basin. Various herps at various times utilize this culvert to assuage their various needs. Patti and I occasionally visit the canal just […]

By Herp News The tortoise that was discovered by Jonathan Hanks on his Oahu driveway on New Year's Day was scheduled to be picked up by the State Department of Agriculture Wednesday afternoon. Rep. John Mizuno's office received several calls from people claiming to be the owner of the tortoise. The state will be calling […]

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By Herp News A well-traveled tortoise is back where he belongs. Rarely does a tortoise become a top story, but a reptile has been been getting all sorts of attention after getting lost. Now, this tortoise story comes with a happy ending. The phone had been ringing off the hook at State Representative John Mizuno's […]

By Herp News The story of a tortoise found roaming a Kaneohe neighborhood has come to a happy close, its ending not too far from where it all began. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News The tortoise that was discovered by Jonathan Hanks on his driveway on New Year's Day was scheduled to be picked up by the State Department of Agriculture Wednesday afternoon. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News New research by a team of biologists has revealed that creating antivenom is a bit tricky. That’s because the type of venom a snake produces can change according to where it lives. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News The Ebola outbreak in West Africa may have been the result of complex economic and agricultural policies developed by authorities in Guinea and Liberia, according to a new commentary in Environment and Planning A. Looking at the economic activities around villages where Ebola first emerged, the investigators analyzed a shift in land-use […]

By Herp News London (AFP) – A giant prehistoric reptile that patrolled the waters off Scotland 170 million years ago has been identified by scientists, they said Monday. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

Smugglers attempted to pass almost 200 baby radiated tortoises through Paris. From PressTV: The rare reptile species are known as “radiated tortoises” and found only in Madagascar, customs officials said. The one-of-a-kind pattern on their shell case makes them precious for collectors. The baby reptiles, 15 of which had died, were discovered in a crate […]

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By Herp News Recently, Internet mayhem group Lizard Squad made news by ruining Christmas Day for Xbox Live and PlayStation Network users. Afterwards the group unveiled a distributed denial of service (DDoS) tool offered to the public that allows people to use the … Continue reading → Go to Source …read more Read more here: […]