By Herp News 790 rhinos have been poached in South Africa this year, nearly a fifth higher than last year’s record toll, reports the Department of Environmental Affairs. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

Why are so many humans afraid of snakes? Scientists may have the answer. From the LA Times: We’re not born with a fear of snakes, but it sure seems to develop early. Now scientists may be closer to a explaining why ophidiophobia ranks among the top fears of humans, and seems to be shared with […]

By Herp News Company's Equipment Care division becomes sole vendor and installer of Green Turtle's Retroceptor™ and Microceptor™ in-kitchen wastewater treatment solutions ST. PAUL, MN, Oct. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – … Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Was the evolution of high-quality vision in our ancestors driven by the threat of snakes? New work supports this theory. In a new paper, researchers show that there are specific nerve cells in the brains of rhesus macaque monkeys that respond to images of snakes. Go to Source …read more Read more […]

By Herp News Researchers from James Cook University and National Geographic discovered three new herp species — a cryptic leaf-tail gecko, a colorful skink, and a frog — during an expedition to northeastern Australia. The species are described in three papers published in October in the journal Zootaxa. Go to Source …read more Read more […]

By Herp News A rambunctious reptile caused Regina firefighters to scramble Monday morning, but they soon scaled back their response. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Scientists have found what they're describing as a “lost world” on the northern tip of Queensland, Australia, hosting at least three previously undocumented species, including a frog that makes love in the rain. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News One of the world’s least-known flying foxes could face extinction by rising seas and changing precipitation patterns due to global warming, according to a new study in Zookeys. The research, headed by Donald Buden with the College of Micronesia, is the first in-depth study of the resident bats of the remote Mortlock […]

By Herp News The first corner on the Surfers Paradise track is not the place to be for a lizard. Photos Brian Hurst The first corner on the Surfers Paradise track is not the place to be for a lizard. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

Check out this video “Bearded Dragon eating,” submitted by kingsnake.com user captainjwl. 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 rehabilitated juvenile flatback turtle will be released into the wild and tracked by the WA Department of Parks and Wildlife using satellite technology. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News A rehabilitated juvenile flatback turtle will be released into the wild and tracked by the WA Department of Parks and Wildlife using satellite technology. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Museum hosts annual Halloween party Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News A GOOD samaritan has donated Byron Bay snake catcher George Ellis a car to use until the end of the year. The call went out for a vehicle to replace Mr Ellis' snakemobile last week, after his Holden Rodeo he had used for the past seven years broke down and was not […]

By Herp News The first corner on the Surfers Paradise track is not the place to be for a lizard. Photos Brian Hurst The first corner on the Surfers Paradise track is not the place to be for a lizard. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News KOTA KINABALU: The first dedicated turtle rescue centre in Sabah was officially launched yesterday, marked with the release […] Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Guwahati, Oct 26 (IANS) Police Friday arrested three people after recovering a Golden Gecko lizard from their possession, police said. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News The Las Vegas Reptile Expo will be back at the Santa Fe Station Hotel and Casino Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Scientists described at least 441 previously unknown species from Amazon rainforest between 2010 and 2013, according a new report from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News The Nilgiris, also known as the “Blue mountains,” in southern India are an extraordinary mountain range that form one of the most diverse biospheres in the country, the Nilgiri Biosphere. And the Nagarhole National Park, declared a tiger reserve in 1999 is part of this biosphere. The Kabini River flows through the […]

By Herp News At least 441 new species of animals and plants have been discovered over a four year period in the vast, underexplored rainforest of the Amazon, including a monkey that purrs like a cat. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

People broke the law, but it’s the alligator who died. Because Florida law prohibits relocating alligators larger than 4 feet in length, this healthy, 11-and-a-half foot animal was killed after some idiot tethered him to a tree behind an apartment complex. From the Tampa Tribune: That alligator gator stretched 11 feet, 6 inches and may […]

By Herp News Tortoise Capital Advisors, L.L.C., the adviser of NDP, NTG, TPZ, TTP, TYG, TYN and TYY, announced today the release of third quarter 2013 reports for each of these funds. The reports are available online at www.tortoiseadvisors.com. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Scientists are providing an evolutionary explanation for severe allergic reactions. Researchers show that mice injected with a small dose of bee venom were later resistant to a potentially lethal dose of the same venom. The study is the first experimental evidence that the same immune response involved in allergies may have evolved […]

By Herp News The giant armadillo (Priodontes maximus) is not called a giant for nothing: it weighs as much as a large dog and grows longer than the world’s biggest tortoise. However, despite its gigantism, many people in its range—from the Amazon to the Pantanal—don’t even know it exists or believe it to be more […]

By Herp News Scientists with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) have captured stunning images of Andean bear families taking down camera traps in Bolivia’s Apolobamba National Natural Area of Integrated Management. In one series of images a mother and her two cubs bite, claw, and whack one of the cameras. However even as they destroy […]

On Monday, we reported on an immune system characteristic that leaves amphibians particularly susceptible to the chytrid fungus, which is responsible for massive declines in amphibians populations around the world. Now, it looks like the herbicide atrazine is also increasing the susceptibility of frogs to chytridiomycosis. From Phys.org: USF Biologist Jason Rohr said the new […]

By Herp News A new study shows the herbicide atrazine increased mortality from chytridiomycosis, a disease causing worldwide amphibian declines. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News ODFW Wildlife Biologist Jason Journey with the invasive alligator snapping turtle captured at Prineville Reservoir. ODFW Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Alligator snapping turtle, native to the Southeast but an invasive species in Oregon, was discovered by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife last week. The alligator snapping turtle is the largest freshwater turtle in North America and can grow up to 250 pounds.  Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No […]

By Herp News Peruvian fishermen slaughtered dolphins to use as bait for shark fishing, an undercover investigation has revealed. Footage showed infant and adult dolphins being harpooned then stabbed and clubbed before, in some cases, being cut open and butchered while still alive. The slaughtered dolphins were cut up and used as bait. Dolphins are […]

By Herp News It’s hard to mistake an arapaima for anything else: these massive, heavily-armored, air-breathing fish (they have to surface every few minutes) are the megafauna of the Amazon’s rivers. But despite their unmistakability, and the fact that they have been hunted by indigenous people for millennia, scientists still know relatively little about arapaima, […]

By Herp News Presented by Gatorland, the third installment of “Gatorcane” concludes the edge-of-your-seat trilogy with reporter Jon Busdeker meeting face-to-face with the Mother Gator. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

A thriving population of green anoles is living in a Los Angeles neighborhood. From KCET.org: The lizards that biologists just found thriving in the Hancock Park neighborhood of Los Angeles aren’t a new species: they’re the extremely well-studied green anole. But as the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum’s Lila Higgins reports, the discovery marks […]

By Herp News In 2004, the first-ever Global Amphibian Assessment (GAA) reviewed all 5,743 amphibian species known to science and concluded that 32% were threatened with extinction – a number far exceeding corresponding figures for birds and mammals (12 to 23% respectively). In addition to the usual culprits of climate change and habitat destruction, a […]

By Herp News The first alligator snapping turtle found in the Central Oregon wilderness was pulled out of the Prineville Reservoir, the ODFW reported Monday. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Almost all wild caught marine fish for the aquarium trade will die within a year of capture, according to WWF. Following months of interviews with Filipino marine exporters and hobbyists, WWF-Philippines have found that roughly 80% of all marine fish die before they are sold, and those that survive long enough to […]

By Herp News An alligator in Walmart would be enough to make most people run in terror, but shoppers in Florida went about their business on Sunday when a 6-foot reptile invaded their store. The incident happened at a Walmart in Apopka, Florida, just after midnight. Shoppers noticed the alligator wandering near the front door […]

By Herp News An Australian sailor has described parts of the Pacific Ocean as “dead” because of severe overfishing, with his vessel having to repeatedly swerve debris for thousands of kilometers on a journey from Australia to Japan. Ivan MacFadyen told of his horror at the severe lack of marine life and copious amounts of […]

By Herp News SANDAKAN (Bernama) — By any stretch of imagination, this should have been a very mundane event. For centuries, turtles have been coming ashore to lay eggs, the event happening without much ado. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links