It was several decades ago, when most of Florida’s caves were open to human intrusion, that I first met Florida’s little blind salamander. A friend took me to cave (that I then thought huge) in Calhoun County. It was by far the biggest cave I had ever been in, and soon after entering I was […]
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Dec 02
Dec 02
Confederate soldiers may have used ancient alligator for target practice
An alligator recently killed in Mississippi had Civil War era musket balls in his hide. From the World News Daily Report: A group of Mississippi hunters who shot and killed an alligator weighting 910 pounds (413 kilograms) on Sunday, were amazed when they discovered that the animal already bore injuries caused by musket ammunitions from […]
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Herp Photo of the Day: Chinese Tree Viper!
It’s our herp photo of the day, uploaded by kingsnake.com user dickvisser! Upload your own reptile and amphibian photos photos at gallery.kingsnake.com, and you could see them featured here! …read more Read more here: King Snake No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Xbox Live Down, Hackers Take Credit
By Herp News The Lizard Patrol claims to have brought down Xbox Live with a DDOS attack. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Endangered turtle Leona jets off to tweet from the Canaries
By Herp News Loggerhead who recuperated in Galway will move to sanctuary in Las Palmas Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Tortoise Power and Energy Infrastructure Fund, Inc. Provides Unaudited Balance Sheet Information and Asset Coverage …
By Herp News Tortoise Power and Energy Infrastructure Fund, Inc. today announced that as of Nov. 30, 2014, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $259.4 million and Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Tortoise Energy Independence Fund, Inc. Provides Unaudited Balance Sheet Information and Asset Coverage Ratio Update …
By Herp News Tortoise Energy Independence Fund, Inc. today announced that as of Nov. 30, 2014, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $400.1 million and its unaudit Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Tortoise Pipeline & Energy Fund, Inc. Provides Unaudited Balance Sheet Information and Asset Coverage Ratio Update as …
By Herp News Tortoise Pipeline & Energy Fund, Inc. today announced that as of November 30, 2014, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $443.6 million and its u Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Tortoise MLP Fund, Inc. Provides Unaudited Balance Sheet Information and Asset Coverage Ratio Update as of Nov. 30, 2014
By Herp News Tortoise MLP Fund, Inc. today announced that as of Nov. 30, 2014, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $2.3 billion and its unaudited net asset value Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Tortoise Energy Infrastructure Corp. Provides Unaudited Balance Sheet Information and Asset Coverage Ratio Update as …
By Herp News Tortoise Energy Infrastructure Corp. today announced that as of Nov. 30, 2014, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $4.4 billion and its unaudited ne Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Shark pups may not survive climate change
By Herp News Fierce predatory sharks rule the oceans from the apex of the food pyramid. But climate change may be tougher than these marine hunters, a new study suggests. As oceans warm and their waters become more acidic, fewer sharks may survive their infancies. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No […]
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Most blogged artists: Frank Ocean, Turtle
By Herp News Grammy-winning R&B singer Frank Ocean released the new track “Memrise” on his Tumblr to plenty of blogger buzz, and Glasgow producer Turtle has shared “Lavender,” the first track from his second EP. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Egyptian art helps chart past extinctions of big mammals
By Herp News Life in modern Egypt clings to the Nile River. This crowded green strip within the desert supports more than 2,300 people per square kilometer (6,000 per square mile). But 6,000 years ago, all of Egypt was green and vibrant, teeming with life much like the current Serengeti. Over time, this rich ecosystem […]
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Building ponds for a herp greenhouse
Box turtles, though primarily terrestrial, love to splash around in the water, and of course box turtles need access to fresh drinking water, too. Tortoises need access to fresh water as well, so it’s a natural that some type of pond should be included in an outdoor enclosure, even if only deep enough to provide […]
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More than 1,000 dead sea turtles seized in Vietnam
More than one thousand endangered sea turtles have been seized by Vietnamese environmental police. From : “The turtles were all dead,” an official of the Ministry of Public Security’s environmental police department, Le Hong Thai, said. “They were meant to be processed into handicrafts for export to China,” he added. “The case is under investigation, […]
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Herp Photo of the Day: Razorback Musk Turtle!
It’s our herp photo of the day, uploaded by kingsnake.com user Phil Peak! Upload your own reptile and amphibian photos photos at gallery.kingsnake.com, and you could see them featured here! …read more Read more here: King Snake No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Anaconda man speaks: Why I let the snake swallow me
By Herp News In his nearly 10 years studying anacondas in the Amazon, researcher and conservationist Paul Rosolie, 27, has faced his share of danger. The giant reptile is known to grow up… Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Connors River's bum-breathing turtles in danger
By Herp News A BUM-BREATHING turtle is not something you hear of every day and without more protection it won’t be heard of anymore either. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Botanic garden lizard escapes Boris
By Herp News Boris Johnson chased a lizard through a tropical paradise today as he visited Singapore's botanic garden to endorse the site's bid to become a world heritage site (WHS). Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Turtle in greater danger
By Herp News A BUM-BREATHING turtle is not something you hear of every day and without more protection it won’t be heard of anymore either. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Tortoise Pipeline & Energy Fund, Inc. Provides Section 19(a) Notice
By Herp News This notice provides stockholders of Tortoise Pipeline & Energy Fund, Inc. with information regarding the distribution paid on Nov. 28, 2014 and cumulative distribu Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Tortoise Power and Energy Infrastructure Fund, Inc. Provides Section 19(a) Notice
By Herp News This notice provides stockholders of Tortoise Power and Energy Infrastructure Fund, Inc. with information regarding the distribution paid on Nov. 28, 2014 and cumulativ Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Turtle Back Zoo holiday spectacular to feature 100,000 lights, winter movie weekends
By Herp News The Turtle Back Zoo is hosting a weekend holiday lights spectacular. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Building a bigger greenhouse for herps, part 5
It was time to add the hoophouse roof, but as planned, the final greenhouse would be considerably larger than this first prototype. That’s why I only wanted a temporary solution, until I could determine the size of the final greenhouse, and could plan accordingly. Thus I wanted to try to use the 16-foot steel livestock […]
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Herp Video of the Week: Pink Eastern Worm Snake!
Check out this video “Pink Eastern Worm Snake,” submitted by kingsnake.com user Minuet. 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! …read more Read more here: King Snake No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Herp Photo of the Day: Iguana!
It’s our herp photo of the day, uploaded by kingsnake.com user cycluracornuta! Upload your own reptile and amphibian photos photos at gallery.kingsnake.com, and you could see them featured here! …read more Read more here: King Snake No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard: album more than a procession of songs
By Herp News For Stu McKenzie, guitarist and “creative director” in local psychedelic garage band King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, the process of making an album is more than a linear aggregation of distinct songs. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Rescued turtle set for return to warmer waters
By Herp News A Loggerhead Turtle that was washed up on the Clare coast in November last year is set to return to warmer climes in time for Christmas. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard: album more than a procession of songs
By Herp News For Stu McKenzie, guitarist and “creative director” in local psychedelic garage band King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, the process of making an album is more than a linear aggregation of distinct songs. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Herp Photo of the Day: Happy Thanksgiving!
It’s our herp photo of the day, uploaded by kingsnake.com user anialady! Upload your own reptile and amphibian photos photos at gallery.kingsnake.com, and you could see them featured here! …read more Read more here: King Snake No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Building a bigger greenhouse for herps, part 4
If I were only going to do a single pen, I could have stopped with where I was in my last post, and do the finish out. All that was left was to set the steel panel hoophouse roof up, cover it in wire, and throw a tarp over it. But not yet. We had […]
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New calendar celebrates primates and raises money for their survival
By Herp News Humans, or Homo sapiens sapiens, are really just upright apes with big brains. We may have traded actual jungles for gleaming concrete and steel ones, but we are still primates, merely one member of an order consisting of sixteen families. We may have removed ourselves from our wilder beginnings, but our extant […]
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Tortoise taggers at Yuma Proving Grounds
Researchers at the Yuma Proving Grounds are making headway tagging tortoises to study their movements. From the Yuma Sun: To track the tortoises and study their habits, biologists attach small VHF transmitters and GPS data loggers to the shell of each tortoise they find. They also paint a unique number on the tortoise’s shell, and […]
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Herp Photo of the Day: Corn Snake!
It’s our herp photo of the day, uploaded by kingsnake.com user snakepunk! Upload your own reptile and amphibian photos photos at gallery.kingsnake.com, and you could see them featured here! …read more Read more here: King Snake No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Tortoise taped to cereal box by Gumtree seller in London posting pet to Scotland
By Herp News A tortoise owner in Wormit, Fife, bought a new pet on the trading website for £100 but to his horror it arrived utterly immobile inside a purple box of Choco Hoops. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Meet the world’s rarest chameleon: Chapman’s pygmy
By Herp News In just two forest patches may dwell a tiny, little-known chameleon that researchers have dubbed the world’s most endangered. Chapman’s pygmy chameleon from Malawi hasn’t been seen in 16 years. In that time, its habitat has been whittled down to an area about the size of just 100 American football fields. Go […]
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Turtle Beach Heroes of the Storm™ PC Gaming Headset Now Available
By Herp News VALHALLA, N.Y., Nov. 25, 2014 /PRNewswire/ – Turtle Beach, the leading audio brand in the video games industry, today announced that the officially licensed Heroes of the Storm ™ PC Gaming Headset is … Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Yellow in a tree
I sat in the yard this morning watching the ducks swim in their little pool and the dogs play rambunctiously over the expanse of the yard. It was a sunny 75 degrees Fahrenheit and very comfortable overall. Then came the blue jays. Within moments there were 8 or 10 of them, all screaming at the […]
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Turtles more closely related to birds than snakes, lizards
A just-published study has turned scientific concensus upside down by suggesting turtles aren’t very closely related to snakes and lizards after all. Instead, their closests cousins are birds, crocodiles, and dinosaurs, a group researchers are now calling “Archelosauria,” which is believed to be the largest group of vertebrates to be assigned a new scientific name. […]
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Herp Photo of the Day: Cape Gopher Snake!
It’s our herp photo of the day, uploaded by kingsnake.com user HappyHeathen! Upload your own reptile and amphibian photos photos at gallery.kingsnake.com, and you could see them featured here! …read more Read more here: King Snake No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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