By Herp News The abundant Puerto Rican coqui frog has experienced changes since the 1980s that are likely due to global warming, biologists report. The call of the male coqui became shorter and higher pitched, and the animal itself has become smaller. The study is the first to show the effect of temperature change on […]

By Herp News   You’re sailing from the Spice Islands across the open ocean to the South American port of Guayaquil, your financial motives rooted somewhere along a broad spectrum of morality and lawfulness. Several months have passed, and food stores and morale are low. Fortunately, you know a spot that will save the day, […]

What if there was a disease that killed or crippled hundreds of thousands of people every year, but no one seemed to care? It’s not a disease, but as Dr. Matthew Lewin wrote in the New York Times Sunday Review last weekend, snakebites kill 94,000 people and cripple 400,000, mostly in impoverished parts of the […]

By Herp News An ornithologist has found that the capacity of a bird’s gut to change with environmental conditions is a primary limiting factor in their ability to adapt to the rapidly changing climate. And he believes that most other animals are also limited in a similar way. Go to Source …read more Read more […]

By Herp News Today Rexnord announced that it has acquired Green Turtle Technologies Ltd., Green Turtle Americas Ltd. and Filamat Composites Inc. . Based Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Plans for an industrial site threaten one of Malaysia’s only marine turtle nesting beaches and a forest home to rare trees and mammals, according to local activists. Recently, the state government of Perak approved two industrial project inside Tanjung Hantu Permanent Forest Reserve. But activists say these will not only cut into […]

Did you hear the one about the man who got out of his car to get a closer look at an alligator… and got bitten by a water moccasin? No, it’s not a joke. It’s a true story from WTSP in Tampa. Read it here. …read more Read more here: King Snake No products found. […]

By Herp News Byline: The Lizard lifeboat was launched just after 5pm yesterday afternoon (13 April) to a report of a 13 year old male fallen from cliffs at Bass Point, The Lizard. Page Content: Falmouth Coastguard requested The Lizard lifeboat crew launch at 5pm yesterday afternoon after they received a 999 call from a […]

By Herp News Conservation for Sumatran rhinos suffered another blow last week, only days after Suci—one of only ten rhinos in captive breeding efforts—died at Cincinnati Zoo. Scientists in the Malaysian state of Sabah revealed that a newly captured female, Iman, suffers from an assortment of tumors in her uterus, hugely complicating reproduction efforts. Go […]

By Herp News Scientists have challenged a long held belief about the way certain species of vertebrates evolved. They found that genes evolve more rapidly in species containing germ plasm. The results came about as they put to the test a novel theory that early developmental events dramatically alter the vertebrate body plan and the […]

Some people in a Mississippi town might have had turtle soup on their minds when they rescued a huge snapping turtle from a storm drain, but they quickly changed their minds and decided to save him, instead. Read the story at KPTV.com. …read more Read more here: King Snake No products found. Amazon Auto Links

Are poachers stealing and selling the golden lancehead pit viper (Bothrops insularis) from an island off the coast of Brazil? That was the topic of last night’s Nightline Prime: One poisonous bite from the Golden Lancehead pit viper is enough to kill a grown man within a few hours. It’s fast-acting venom will burn through […]

By Herp News SO OFTEN a tropical haven for cashed-up honeymooners and celebrities, Lizard Island is now a disaster zone. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News The extremely rare, utterly impressive and scary looking alligator snapping turtle is actually even more rare than first thought according to a study out of Florida this week. Reserachers in in the sunshine state have found that the scaly creature, once common to Houston, is actually just one of three different kinds […]

By Herp News SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – A weekend event featuring vendors offering everything reptile-related kicks off in Springfield on Saturday. Repticon, a reptile and exotic animal show, presents vendors offering reptile pets, supples, cages, feeders and merchandise. The event also offers free raffles, animal seminars and activities for the kids. The event is at Ozark […]

By Herp News Staff at the Turtle Rescue Center prepare to attach prosthetic fins to Freedom's carapace. The green sea turtle lost his two left limbs after becoming entangled in a fishing net. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Staff at the Turtle Rescue Center prepare to attach prosthetic fins to Freedom's carapace. The green sea turtle lost his two left limbs after becoming entangled in a fishing net. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News The reconstruction of an extinct meat-eating marsupial’s skull, Nimbacinus dicksoni, suggests that it may have had the ability to hunt vertebrate prey exceeding its own body size. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Three new books released this spring – two new hardcovers and one released for the first time in paperback – feature turtles and tortoises, and offer lessons in taking time to stop and experience the world around us. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto […]

Check out this video “Elvis the croaking frog,” 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 Conservation of coastal rivers of the northern Gulf of Mexico is vital to the survival of the alligator snapping turtle, including two recently discovered species, scientists say. A new study shows the alligator snapping turtle, the largest freshwater turtle in the Western Hemisphere and previously believed to be one species, is actually […]

By Herp News The comic dodo, the stately great auk, the passenger pigeon blotting out the skies: human kind has wiped out nearly 200 species of birds in the last five hundred years. Now, if we don’t act soon we’ll add many new ones to this list: birds such as the giant ibis, the plains-wanderer, […]

By Herp News Tortoise Capital Advisors, an investment manager with broad experience in the energy sector, today announced the launch of an educational website. The new site is designed to be a Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Tortoise Capital Advisors, an investment manager with broad experience in the energy sector, today announced the launch of an educational website. The new site is designed to be a Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News SAN DIEGO, April 10, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Turtle Beach, the leading audio brand in the games industry, today announced a new addition to its lineup of gaming headsets for the PS4 ™ . The Ear Force® P12 … Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto […]

By Herp News SAN DIEGO, April 10, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Turtle Beach, the leading audio brand in the games industry, today announced a new addition to its lineup of gaming headsets for the PS4 ™ . The Ear Force® P12 … Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto […]

Will the ‘family fun’ that is the Sweetwater Rattlesnake Round-Up in Sweetwater, Texas, ever be stopped? From CNN: The Jaycees, short for the U.S. Junior Chamber, bills itself as a group that gives young people “the tools they need to build the bridges of success.” The Sweetwater branch has been holding what it calls “The […]

By Herp News Turtle Beach's i30 Bluetooth headset is not the coolest-looking device on the market, but it has some nice features that may help the company extend its appeal beyond gamers Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Something that caught a Baton Rouge, Louisiana resident’s eye led to the rescue of an enormous alligator snapping turtle. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

Everywhere it’s greening-up. Temperatures are warm so grass is on an all out burst of spring growth that says, finely, it’s spring. Thank the shelled god. I don’t know if I can take it anymore. Oh, it’s green all up and down our street but not yet in Frankie’s yard. Everyday, every single day, I […]

Can the conservationist and the cowman be friends? Not if you’re Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, who posted a challenge to the BLM on his ranch’s website protesting efforts to save the desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii), saying, “They have my cattle and now they have one of my boys. Range War begins tomorrow.” From ABC News: […]

By Herp News UPDATE 2pm: LIZARD Island Resort has been evacuated and Cairns northern beaches closed in preparation for Cyclone Ita’s onslaught. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News ALBY the albino python will be one of the many snakes on display at the largest reptile show in Australia this Sunday. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Annie Martin LOS ANGELES, April 8 (UPI) — Promotion for the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” reboot has begun ahead of the film's release this summer. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News U.S. Geological Survey Dramatic distribution losses and a few major distribution gains are forecasted for southwestern bird and reptile species as the climate changes, according to just-published research by scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey, the University of New Mexico, and Northern Arizona University. Overall, the study forecasted species distribution losses – […]

By Herp News With climate change come several dramatic shifts in species distribution within the United States. The U.S. Geological Survey in concert with the University of New Mexico and Northern Arizona University have recently projected distribution losses for nearly half of the 5 examined reptile species including the locally famed chuckwalla. Breeding bird ranges, […]

A South Carolina community is feeling the fear after shed snake skins found near an apartment complex were identified as coming from the Gaboon viper, a venomous snake from Africa. From ABC News: When a pest control company came last week to do a regular checkup on the bait boxes at the complex, the exterminator […]

By Herp News Dramatic distribution losses and a few major distribution gains are forecasted for southwestern bird and reptile species as the climate changes, according to new research. Overall, the study forecasted species distribution losses — that is, where species are able to live — of nearly half for all but one of the 5 […]

By Herp News Dramatic distribution losses and a few major distribution gains are forecasted for southwestern bird and reptile species as the climate changes, according to new research. Overall, the study forecasted species distribution losses — that is, where species are able to live — of nearly half for all but one of the 5 […]

By Herp News Summary: Dramatic distribution losses and a few major distribution gains are forecasted for southwestern bird and reptile species as the climate changes, according to just-published research by scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey, the University of New Mexico, and Northern Arizona University. Southwestern Bird and Reptile Distributions to Shift as Climate Changes […]