By Herp News August 19 is World Orangutan Day, a designation intended to raise awareness about the great red ape, which is threatened by habitat loss, the pet trade, and hunting. Once distributed across much of southeast Asia, today orangutans are only found on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra. Both species of orangutan — […]

By Herp News Amazon river turtles communicate with their hatchlings and with one another using vocalizations, recordings reveal. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Building photo via Architectural Digest, turtle photo via Change.org Aspen's brand new $45 million art museum may have the Pritzker Prize winning architect Shigeru Ban on its side, but that doesn't mean it's immune from criticism. And while originally… Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon […]

By Herp News In a recent update of the IUCN Red List, scientists have identified 13 new bird species that have gone extinct since 1500. In total the list now finds that at least 140 bird species gone extinct in the past five hundred years, representing 1.3 percent of the world’s total known birds. Go […]

The Coast Guard is known for saving endangered sailors, but one crew can say they saved an endangered turtle. From MYFOXNY: The United States Coast Guard has released video showing a crew saving a huge sea turtle from a dangerous, tangled situation off the New Jersey coast. The video shows Coast Guard members from Station […]

By Herp News DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Mike Daley hits the beach on Canaveral National Seashore before dawn most mornings, climbing into an all-terrain vehicle to survey 12 miles of beach, looking for unique trails in the sand that tell him a sea turtle plodded ashore to lay her eggs. Daley is among a […]

By Herp News Ashland, Ore. — A lizard heat lamp is being blamed for starting a small fire inside of an Ashland home. Ashland Fire and Rescue responded to a report of a fire on the 300 block of Idaho street around 7 Sunday morning. Firefighters say the heat lamp was sitting on the wood […]

By Herp News Google Earth has spurred the discovery of another new species. In this case, the creature is a pygmy chameleon, one of four previously unknown Rhampholeon chameleon species described from the remote ‘sky islands’ in Mozambique. The Mount Mabu pygmy chameleon was discovered after Google Earth images of a tract of forest led […]

By Herp News Wildlife officials plan tortoise sterilization campaign to curb breeding of backyard pets Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News The federal government is taking the unusual step of beginning to sterilize an endangered species it is trying to save. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News LAS VEGAS (AP) — The federal government is taking the unusual step of beginning to sterilize an endangered species it is trying to save. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News 2K and Turtle Rock Studios announced today that Evolve, the highly anticipated 4v1 cooperative and competitive multiplayer shooter coming to next-gen consoles and PC on February 10 Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Meet the Caiuajara dobruskii: one of the craziest extinct flying lizards you'll ever see. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

Check out this video “Squirrel VS Snake,” submitted by kingsnake.com user PH FasDog. 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

By Herp News Turtles are well known for their longevity and protective shells, but it turns out these reptiles use sound to stick together and care for young. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Meet the Caiuajara dobruskii: one of the craziest extinct flying lizards you'll ever see. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News An ancient flying reptile with a bizarre, butterflylike head has been unearthed in Brazil. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

No matter how much you like snakes, finding 48 roaming loose in your home can be quite the shock. From the New York Daily News: The snakes are small, but they are aggressive, the couple said. They are especially worried for their toddler son, Bentley. “Our two-year-old is terrified of them,” Hisler said. “We’ve only […]

By Herp News By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A flying reptile whose head was topped with a big bony crest shaped like the sail of a yacht swooped through the skies over Brazil roughly 90 million years ago. Scientists announced on Wednesday the remarkable discovery of about 50 fossilized skeletons of a creature called […]

By Herp News An ancient flying reptile with a bizarre, butterflylike head has been unearthed in Brazil. Hundreds of fossils from the reptile were unearthed in a single bone bed, providing the strongest evidence yet that the flying reptiles were social animals, said study co-author Alexander Kellner, a paleontologist at the Museu Nacional/Universidade Federal do […]

By Herp News A huge boneyard of 47 pterosaur fossils has revealed a new species and unprecedented insight into the lifestyles of the ancient flying beasts. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Tangled in fishing gear off the coast of N.J., the turtle was struggling until the Coast Guard came to the rescue Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Frances Burns ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., Aug. 13 (UPI) — An 800-pound leatherback sea turtle, stuck in fishing gear 30 miles off the coast of New Jersey, got a helping hand from the U.S. Coast Guard. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News If someone told you there was a place where 200 million year old coral reefs had erupted from beneath the sea and were now draped in the oldest rain forest in the world, a place where marbled cats and clouded leopards prowl the sharp crags and their dark caves in search of […]

By Herp News With among the world’s largest tails compared to body-size, the tufted ground squirrel just might be the most exotic squirrel species on the planet. Found only on the island of Borneo, this threatened species is also surrounded by wild tales, including the tenacity to take down a deer for dinner. New research […]

Experts in India think a multi-state antivenom pool is needed to stem the tide of deaths caused by snakebites. From the Times of India: The number of deaths caused by snakebites in the country has reached nearly epidemic proportions therefore there is a need for setting up a multi-state cooperative for extracting snake venom, said […]

By Herp News A recent survey of mountain yellow-legged frogs released into the wild by San Diego Zoo Global wildlife conservationists indicates that the populations are showing signs of stress related to drought conditions in California. The juvenile frogs, released into the San Jacinto mountains in two protected sites, are representatives of a species brought […]

By Herp News BLACK mambas, king cobras and even a celebrity alligator will be slithering their way to Wraxall this week. Reptile Fortnight has returned to Noah's Ark Zoo Farm, with daily shows and snakes on display in a specially constructed bullet proof Perspex cube in the complex's Ark Arena auditorium. The educational shows, by […]

By Herp News THE founder of a reptile rescue charity has urged people to be certain of their commitment before adopting an exotic animal as a pet. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Rescuers free large leatherback turtle that got entangled in fishing gear off Jersey Shore Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Three doctoral students did a cross-country road trip survey of roadside ecology, and now report on a rare plant that thrives in the aftermath of wildfires, pine snakes and the impact of roads on their habitat and newborn pine snakes’ map-making ability. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No […]

By Herp News Shark fin demand has dropped precipitously in China in just a few years, according to a new report by WildAid. Shark fin traders in Guangzhou—the current informal capital of the shark fin trade—say their sales have fallen by 82 percent in just two years, according to WildAid. Go to Source …read more […]

By Herp News Marking World Elephant Day, a designation intended to raise awareness about the plight of elephants that are being widely poached for the ivory trade, primatologist Jane Goodall urged people to have greater compassion for Earth’s largest land animals. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto […]

Advocates hope the the discovery of world’s 10,000th reptile species leads to greater protections for endangered herps. From Mongabay News: The new milestone is important because it means reptiles are as diverse as birds, which are generally considered to include around 10,000 species. Uetz predicts that reptiles will soon surpass birds given the rate of […]

By Herp News SAN DIEGO, Aug. 11, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Turtle Beach Corporation (NASDAQ: HEAR) today announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2014. Highlights & Developments Second quarter net … Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News It's like Robert DeNiro said in Goodfellas: “Never rat on your lizard friends, and always keep your mouth shut or your lizard friend will straight up murder you — lizards are f*cking… Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News For thousands of years turtles have been used in Chinese traditional medicine to treat a wide variety of ailments and diseases. Originally published in the journal Radiata and recently republished HerpDigest David S. Lee and Liao Shi Kun write, “[In Chinese culture] turtles are symbolic of long life, personal wealth, fertility, strength, […]

By Herp News Tortoise Capital Advisors will visit the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday and ring the NYSE Closing Bell to celebrate a decade of listing master limited partnership-focused funds on the NYSE, and more specifically the 10th anniversary of Tortoise Energy Infrastructure Corp. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No […]

By Herp News Tortoise Capital Advisors will visit the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday and ring the NYSE Closing Bell to celebrate a decade of listing master limited partnership-focused funds on the NYSE, and more specifically the 10th anniversary of Tortoise Energy Infrastructure Corp. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No […]

By Herp News Officials are reminding people, to be mindful of the nests and the hatchlings while they are spending time on the beach. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links