By Herp News A photographer in Hawaii has captured the stunning moment dozens of tiny fish operating an underwater 'car wash' latch onto a sea turtle to give it a clean. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

How do you examine a snake’s heart? With lots of help. From BBC News: Reticulated pythons are the longest snake species in the world. So it took a team of eight handlers to hold the snake in order that it could be examined. The huge reptile, named JF, is thought to be one of the […]

By Herp News WHO IS butchering turtles and leaving them on the beach? This is the question being asked by upset turtle conservationists as they discovered another turtle dead, the third in two weeks, at King’s Beach, Road View, St Peter, yesterday. Barbados Sea Turtle Project volunteers Caitlin Lanphear and Meghan Bend made the discovery […]

By Herp News A 150-pound tortoise found wandering in Alhambra this weekend has been reunited with its family, officials announced Sunday. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Sea turtles are not a species one would normally associate with the United Kingdom. But on the remote UK overseas territory of Ascension Island, one of the world’s largest green turtle populations is undergoing something of a renaissance. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto […]

By Herp News Ecologists may be underestimating the impact of logging in old-growth tropical forests by failing to account for subtleties in how different animal groups respond to the intensity of timber extraction, argues a paper published today in the journal Current Biology. The study, led by Zuzana Burivalova of ETH Zurich, is based on […]

By Herp News CONCRETE — The air might have been getting a little too hot for humans, but for cold-blooded reptiles, the rising temperatures were just right. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News ( Virginia Commonwealth University ) More than 10,000 reptile species have been recorded into the Reptile Database, a web-based catalog of all living reptile species and classification, making the reptile species among the most diverse vertebrate groups in the world, alongside bird and fish species. Go to Source …read more Read more […]

By Herp News Tortoise Pipeline & Energy Fund, Inc. today announced that as of July 31, 2014, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $473.0 million and its unaud Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Tortoise MLP Fund, Inc. today announced that as of July 31, 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

By Herp News Tortoise Energy Independence Fund, Inc. today announced that as of July 31, 2014, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $496.2 million and its unaudit Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Tortoise Energy Infrastructure Corp. today announced that as of July 31, 2014, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $4.3 billion and its unaudited ne Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Tortoise Power and Energy Infrastructure Fund, Inc. today announced that as of July 31, 2014, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $254.0 million and Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

Once, not very far away, there was a land of modest fame where a young boy name Prince resided with his Queen Mom and his King Dad. Prince was a special boy who lived in a spectrum call Autism. The people didn’t know what this meant, nor could they understand his frequent seizures so they […]

Check out this video “Snake Shedding,” 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 A turtle on the Canada’s species at risk list has been found in Windsor-Essex with a fish hook lodged in its throat. Tom Preney says someone seeking help brought the spiny softshell turtle to Ojibway Nature Centre earlier this week. The turtle is so big, staff at Ojibway Nature Centre had no […]

By Herp News This notice provides stockholders of Tortoise Power and Energy Infrastructure Fund, Inc. with information regarding the distribution paid on July 31, 2014 and cumulativ Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News There is a remaining railroad sign at the tracks in Surprise near Grand Avenue and Bell Road marked Lizard Acres.                 Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Ecologists may be underestimating the impact of logging in old-growth tropical forests by failing to account for subtleties in how different animal groups respond to the intensity of timber extraction, argues a paper published today in the journal Current Biology. The study, led by Zuzana Burivalova of ETH Zurich, is based on […]

By Herp News Lynchburg, VA – UPDATE: The missing tortoise has been reunited with his family. Horatio, aka Big Boy, is now back with his owner. The seven year old animal wandered away from his home on Lakeside Drive in Lynchburg last Friday night while the family worked to enlarge his enclosure. Go to Source […]

By Herp News Panaji, July 31 (IANS) Using the skin of the endangered monitor lizard for the ghumat, a traditional clay drum, during the upcoming Ganesh Chaturthi festival will attract a fine of Rs.25,000 and a possibility of up to six years in jail, the Goa government cautioned Thursday. A statement issued here said ghumat […]

By Herp News An 18-year-old girl who was arrested earlier this month on animal abuse charges after a video appeared to show her and a younger girl torturing a tortoise, is now facing a charge of lewd and lascivious battery on a younger child. According to the Clay County Sheriff's Office arrest report, Jennifer Greene […]

By Herp News Eight years ago, a female jaguar cub was caught on film by a motion-triggered camera trap set in the foothills of canyons, oak forest, and scrubland that make-up the Northern Jaguar Reserve, just 125 miles south of the U.S.-Mexico border. Three years later, in 2009, the jaguar reappeared on film as an […]

Going where no gecko has gone before, Russia launched a research satellite filled with geckos who will, hopefully, mate in a zero gravity environment. The satellite briefly stopped responding to mission control’s commands, but contact was restored three days later. From the Washington Post: At this very moment, a Russian satellite full of geckos — […]

By Herp News The ultimate goal of all species on the planet is procreation, the act of making anew. But few mothers could contend with a deep-sea octopus, known as Graneledone boreopacifica, which researchers have recently observed guarding its eggs for four-and-a-half years (53 months), before likely succumbing to starvation soon after. Go to Source […]

By Herp News Winking Lizard holding 'Vedett Fest' with free samples in August, Portside Brewery is involved with two collaborations, National IPA Day is coming up, and lots more in our beer news and notes. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

Suburban homeowners in Georgia don’t like sharing their backyards with native copperheads, giving rise to a disturbing trend. From Slate: Some people are trying to fight snakes with snakes. People in one neighborhood nearby, Druid Hills, which backs up to the Fernbank Forest, imported and released a bunch of black rat snakes into their yards. […]

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

Esmerelda is my wonderful aquatic turtle. We found her as a baby, covered in ants in the park, not moving. We started with a 10 gallon tank; progressed to a 35 gallon octagon, then to a 55 gallon rectangle tank; and, finally, we have an 100 gallon pond enclosure on our back porch for her. […]

By Herp News Scientists have added 361 new bird species to the IUCN Red List following a major taxonomic review of non-passerine birds, i.e. non-perching or non-songbirds. Worryingly, 87 of these new birds are threatened with extinction, a percentage nearly double the overall threatened percentage for all birds, which currently sits at 13 percent. Go […]

By Herp News The world’s worst Ebola outbreak was likely begun by a hunter shooting a fruit bat for their dinner or the market, according to the UN. The outbreak has killed over 660 people in six months to date, and recently spread via plane to Nigeria. The disease is particularly deadly with a mortality […]

As the organism that causes chytridiomycosis in amphibians threatens their existence worldwide, a study published in the journal Nature suggests that turning up the heat and the frogs’ own immune defenses may hold the key to beating the fungus. From the New York Times: To find out, the scientists swabbed Bd onto the bellies of […]

By Herp News One of the world’s most bizarre animal groups is now at risk of complete eradication, according to an update of the IUCN Red List. Pangolins, which look and behave similarly to (scaly) anteaters yet are unrelated, are being illegally consumed out of existence due to a thriving trade in East Asia. Go […]

By Herp News STONINGTON, Conn. (AP) — Authorities say a Connecticut man shot to death his girlfriend's pet turtle. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News A Turtle Creek man died after being struck in the head while trying to break up a domestic fight between his neighbors this weekend. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Infrared camera catches loggerhead sea turtle hatchlings emerging from nest in Fla Keys Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Stonington, Conn. — Authorities say a Connecticut man shot to death his girlfriend's pet turtle. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Fifteen years ago, scientists knew next to nothing about one of the Amazon’s most mysterious residents: the short-eared dog. Although the species was first described in 1883 and is considered the sole representative of the Atelocynus genus, biologists spent over a century largely in the dark about an animal that seemed almost […]

By Herp News A 31-year-old Stonington man has been charged with cruelty to animals after police say he shot and killed his girlfriend's pet turtle. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Infor, a leading provider of business application software serving more than 70,000 customers, today announced that Turtle & Hughes, a leading distributor of electrical and industrial equipment, has successfully … Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links