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 […]

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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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

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 […]

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

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 […]

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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By Herp News Electronic Arts Inc. is still experiencing a number of problems with its EA online service after a DDoS attack late Sunday. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Chameleons are an unmistakable family of wonderfully bizarre reptiles. They sport long, shooting tongues; oddly-shaped horns or crests; and a prehensile tail like a monkey’s. But, chameleons are most known for their astonishing ability to change the color of their skin. Now, a update of the IUCN Red List finds that this […]

By Herp News A Philippine court has found nine Chinese fishermen guilty of poaching and environmental crimes for fishing in disputed waters. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Maestro PMS™ Enterprise Property Management announced the Turtle Bay Resort on Oahu's fabled North Shore implemented the Maestro iPad Xpress Check-In to pamper guests with personalized service from the moment they arrive. Maestro's mobile iPad solution is fully-integrated with Maestro PMS and updated in real time to perform all aspects of front […]

By Herp News A team of scientists has reconstructed a detailed ‘tree of life’ for turtles. Next generation sequencing technologies have generated unprecedented amounts of genetic information for a thrilling new look at turtles’ evolutionary history. Scientists place turtles in the newly named group ‘Archelosauria’ with their closest relatives: birds, crocodiles, and dinosaurs. Go to […]

By Herp News A team of scientists has reconstructed a detailed ‘tree of life’ for turtles. Next generation sequencing technologies have generated unprecedented amounts of genetic information for a thrilling new look at turtles’ evolutionary history. Scientists place turtles in the newly named group ‘Archelosauria’ with their closest relatives: birds, crocodiles, and dinosaurs. Go to […]

By Herp News South Africa has surpassed last year’s grisly record for slaughtered rhinos—1,004—more than a month before the year ends. In an announcement on November 20th, the South African Department of Environmental Affairs said that 1,020 rhinos had been killed to date. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. […]

By Herp News ( California Academy of Sciences ) A team of scientists, including researchers from the California Academy of Sciences, has reconstructed a detailed 'tree of life' for turtles. Next generation sequencing technologies in Academy labs have generated unprecedented amounts of genetic information for a thrilling new look at turtles' evolutionary history. Authors place […]

By Herp News Do parents defend their offspring whenever necessary, and do self-sacrificing parents really exist? To answer this question, researchers examined defense behaviors of parent blue tits. They investigated whether birds would risk everything to protect their young from predators. Their conclusion: parents weigh the risks. It is not only the risk to the […]

Dragging some old 4×4 fenceposts for the first pen I used a saw to cut them down to four 40-inch lengths. Using our recently purchased auger, I dug out four holes spaced 8 feet apart as four corners of my square pen. Dug down approximately 18 inches, we wanted our posts to stick up 22 […]

School children in Ireland spent time handling Rascal the Burmese python at the Reptile Conservation Zoo. From the Independent: The scary encounter was to celebrate the launch of the zoo’s search for an Irish Junior Conservation Hero. The new initiative is to help raise awareness about the rapid rate of extinction that is wiping out […]

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By Herp News MARATHON, Fla. (AP) — A loggerhead sea turtle named Sapphire is getting ready for a cross-country trip on Thursday to a permanent home in Southern California after convalescing for more than a year at the Florida Keys-based Turtle Hospital. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon […]

By Herp News MY first sighting of a biawak (monitor lizard) in 1999 happened by chance whilst watching hornbills roost along the Kinabatangan River in northeast Sabah. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

It’s that time of the year again when I loose all sense and intelligence and start thinking of bringing Frankie indoors. Yes, the South is headed to the plummeting cold of 30 No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News It's the latest addition to the Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News What if the tortoise visited the hare in the hospital, years after the race? This story comes from writer Amelia Gray's collection “Museum of the Weird.” Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

Using a simple computer graphics program and a clean canvas, I began to rough out a design for a “small” greenhouse solution, a single pen 8 foot by 8 foot square, covered by steel livestock panels arched over to form the hoophouse roof. The walls of the pen would be 8 foot x 2 foot […]

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By Herp News The signs mark an area where turtles of various species are killed by vehicles as they try to cross a busy road on the northern edge of the Wabashiki Fish and Wildlife Area. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News LA JOLLA, Calif. — For the first time ever, the Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography welcome a rescued sea turtle to its collection of marine life. After a cross-country flight the young loggerhead turtle, weighing nearly 100 pounds, landed in San Diego Wednesday night. “Just last night we flew in […]

By Herp News A genome of a rare species of tapeworm found living inside a patient’s brain has been sequenced for the first time. The study provides insights into potential drug targets within the genome for future treatments. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Crews put up 'Turtle Crossing' signs along road where vehicles hit many in Indiana Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News A 40-pound sea turtle is headed back to the open water after successfully being treated for red tide. The turtle was found in bad shape on Marco island two weeks ago and was the first patient treated by CROW for red tide this season. Go to Source …read more Read more here: […]

By Herp News For the first time, Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, welcomed a rescued and rehabilitated sea turtle to its collection of marine life. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

The distribution of the Escambia map turtle, Graptemys ernsti, long thought to be a variant of the Alabama map turtle, is restricted to parts of the Choctawhatchee, Escambia, Yellow, and Shoal rivers and tributaries in western Florida and adjoining Alabama. The Escambia map turtle is quite similar in appearance and habits to the more easterly […]

An exotic pet hospital in Australia saved a monitor lizard that was hit by a car, and warns drivers to keep an eye out. From the Daily Telegraph: “If you see one hurt … it’s best to be cautious and call an expert. “Also, try and look out for them on the roads. They tend […]

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By Herp News Auburn University is researching a species that could cause problems in Alabama. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Jane Goodall is not only arguably the most famous conservationist who ever lived, but also the most well-known and respected female scientist on the planet today. Her path to reach that stature is an unlikely as it is inspiring. Told to ‘never give up’ by her mother, Goodall set out in her […]