By Herp News Scientists in China have found five well-preserved reptile eggs still intact more than 100 million years after they were laid. It's believed they belong to the ancient pterosaur — a reptile that roamed the Earth more than 120 million years ago during the Cretaceous period. (Via  YouTube / American Museum of Natural […]

By Herp News In the dark caves of southern Indiana in the United States, scientists have discovered a new species of cavefish that are blind, pinkish, and have their anus behind their heads. This peculiar new cavefish is the first to be described in North America in 40 years, and researchers have named it Amblyopsis […]

By Herp News Can a single photograph change the fate of a park? A new conservation group, HabitatID, believes so, and is putting this belief into action. Setting up camera traps in Cambodia’s Virachey National Park, the group hopes that photos of charismatic and endangered species will help reinvigorate protection for a park that has […]

By Herp News Can a single photograph change the fate of a park? A new conservation group, HabitatID, believes so, and is putting this belief into action. Setting up camera traps in Cambodia’s Virachey National Park, the group hopes that photos of charismatic and endangered species will help reinvigorate protection for a park that has […]

By Herp News Scientists in China have found five well-preserved reptile eggs still intact more than 100 million years after they were laid. It's believed they belong to the ancient pterosaur — a reptile that roamed the Earth more than 120 million years ago during the Cretaceous period. (Via  YouTube / American Museum of Natural […]

By Herp News SAN DIEGO, June 9, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Turtle Beach, the leading audio brand in the video games industry, today announced new gaming headsets designed for the popular PlayStation®4 console. The new headsets, which will be available in stores in the Fall of 2014, will be on display at the Electronic Entertainment Expo […]

By Herp News Scientists in China have found five well-preserved reptile eggs still intact more than 100 million years after they were laid. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Scientists in China have found five well-preserved reptile eggs still intact more than 100 million years after they were laid. It's believed they belong to the ancient pterosaur — a reptile that roamed the Earth more than 120 million years ago during the Cretaceous period. (Via  YouTube / American Museum of Natural […]

Want to start your week off with a herp-themed laugh? Read this Wired story about the biggest snake who ever existed, and its messed-up social media campaign. Have fun, and a great week, too! …read more Read more here: King Snake No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News As our cities continue to grow many animal species have to choose to abandon their changing habitats or adapt to their new setting. In Taiwan the tiny mientien tree frog (Kurixalus diootocus) is making the most of its new situation by using city storm drains to amplify mating calls. Go to Source […]

By Herp News The first intact skull of a Mediterranean worm lizard has been found in Spain, according to a new study. Only isolated fragments of fossil Mediterranean worm lizards have previously been found in Europe, and currently, our limited knowledge of their evolution is mainly based on molecular studies. The worm lizard is a […]

By Herp News The Tortoise MLP & Pipeline Fund today announced its third anniversary and that TORIX has received a Five-Star Overall Morningstar RatingTM out of 26 funds in the Energy Limited Partnership category based on three-year risk-adjusted performance ending 5/31/14. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto […]

By Herp News The five intact eggs were found in the Xinjiang province, China and all belonged to a previously unknown pterosaur species, Hamipterus tianshanensis. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News The government has announced that ecotourism projects are being planned for three of the six major islands in the municipality of Turtle Islands. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

Check out this video “Iguana eating grapes,” 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

By Herp News SAN DIEGO, June 6, 2014 /PRNewswire/ – Turtle Beach, the leading audio brand in the video games industry, today announced the Elite Membership Program, an exclusive offering available with all Turtle … Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News The first intact skull of a Mediterranean worm lizard has been found in Spain, according to a new study. Only isolated fragments of fossil Mediterranean worm lizards have previously been found in Europe, and currently, our limited knowledge of their evolution is mainly based on molecular studies. The worm lizard is a […]

By Herp News In 1997, Gabriella Fredriksson, then a young PhD student, was studying sun bears in East Kalamantan, Indonesia, when massive forest fires broke out in the park. ‘It quickly became clear that there was no government agency, NGO, or private company in the area interested in assisting putting out these fires, which were […]

By Herp News A tortoise thought to have travelled almost 300 miles in the back of a lorry from Devon is saved moments before being pulped at a Norfolk recycling plant. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News A five-metre crocodile that has called central Queensland home for three decades is on its way to the Middle East. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News The five intact eggs were found in the Xinjiang province, China and all belonged to a previously unknown pterosaur species, Hamipterus tianshanensis. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News The first three-dimensionally preserved eggs of ancient winged reptiles that lived more than 100 million years ago have been unearthed in China. Five intact eggs were found, along with dozens or more adult fossils, of a new type of pterosaur, a group of prehistoric winged reptiles that dominated the skies during the […]

Scientists recently discovered 28 new species of reptile in the Mekong Delta, bringing the total of new species discovered in Southeast Asia to 367. One of the new species is a primitive viper known as the White Head Burmese Viper, Azemiops kharini. From the World Wildlife Foundation’s report: The venomous species is thought to be […]

By Herp News Two brothers, ages 18 and 21, from Detroit could be arraigned as soon as Thursday for a wild high speed police chase on I-96. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News By: Dee DeQuattroEmail: ddequattro@abc6.comTwitter: @deedequattroFall River Police have released a surveillance photo of a man they believe to be behind the theft of a beloved turtle from the Fall River library. The 13-year-old turtle was stolen on Saturday night. Police believe the suspect hid behind a stack of books until the library […]

By Herp News Researchers working in the Mekong region of Southeast Asia discovered 367 new species between 2012-2013, and are finding them at a rate of one new species every two days. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News A colorful bird found on the Wakatobi islands south of Sulawesi in Indonesia is sufficiently distinct from birds in nearby areas to be classified as a unique species, argue scientists writing in the current issue of the open-access journal PLoS ONE. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products […]

By Herp News ( PLOS ) The first intact skull of a Mediterranean worm lizard has been found in Spain. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News This family, known as blanids, includes the only worm lizards found on land in Europe, said study researcher Arnau Bolet, a doctoral student at the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont in Barcelona. “Thus, the study of a complete fossil skull more than 11 million years old was an unprecedented opportunity.” [The […]

By Herp News Shell Canada is awarding the Georgian Bay Turtle Hospital with a $50,000 grant. The hospital has been struggling to become a functional rehabilitation centre. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

A newly identified extinct reptile known as a dyrosaur has been named after a literary monster. From Live Science: It was 16 feet (4.8 meters) long and tipped the scales at 900 lbs. (408 kilograms). With a blunt snout and powerful bite, it ate turtles and battled monster snakes. Now this extinct dyrosaur, a type […]

By Herp News The Asian Turtle Program was established in 1998 and incorporated into the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo/Cleveland Zoological Society’s Asia regional program in 2003. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Four donors from around the world have pledged $80 million to cat conservation group, Panthera. The money will fund projects working to preserve tigers, lions, jaguars, cheetahs, leopards, snow leopards, and cougars over ten years. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

Just as distracting as a flea to a cat, so a new object in a yard draws the attention of a sulcata tortoise: specifically, Frankie the tortoise. Frankie has finely deemed the back yard worthy. With warm and sunny days now abundant, Frankie has taken to walking his yard, every inch, every day, for hours […]

By Herp News The reptile, discovered in the same layer of rock as the Titanoboa fossil in the Cerrejon coal mine of northern Colombia, has been named after the “demons of terror” Balrogs characters in the Lord of the Rings. “Much like that giant beast, Anthracosuchus balrogus was awakened from deep within a mine after 60 […]

Climate change may not be good for the wildlife we’ve still got, but the melting glaciers it’s causing are revealing some pretty cool fossils. From HuffPo: Dozens of nearly complete skeletons of prehistoric marine reptiles have been uncovered near a melting glacier in southern Chile. Scientists found 46 specimens from four different species of extinct […]

By Herp News The ACT government will spend $1.5million to extend the grassland homes of the striped legless lizard and the golden sun moth. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Ecotourism projects aimed to protect endangered marine species and help sustain community-based tourism enterprises are being developed on Turtle Islands, one of the world’s major nesting sites of marine turtles and located in the country’s southernmost frontier. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News The Public Health Agency of Canada is collaborating with Provincial public health partners to investigate an outbreak of salmonellosis related to snakes and rodents used to feed reptiles, such as mice, also known as feeder rodents. Outbreaks associated with reptiles and feeder rodents have been seen in Canada, the United States and […]

By Herp News On May 22nd, zoos and aquariums around the world creatively called for action on global warming. Dubbed ‘Show the Wild Face of Climate Change,’ the event involved over 70 institutions from 25 countries on all seven continents. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links