My turtles love to eat and I feel like I’m not feeding them enough of a variety. I feed them bokchoy, lettuce, reptomin, grapes, strawberries, plum, raspberries, carrots, shrimp, fish, mosquito larvae, bloodworms and I’m going to try kale. Any ideas for a different variety of foods? Thanks! …read more Read more here: Turtle Times […]

By Herp News The blobfish (Psychrolutes marcidus), a species that lives at great depths and is rarely seen but resembles a marine Jabba the Hut, has been voted the world’s ugliest animal. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News The Western Ghats are a globally recognized repository of biological diversity for our planet. We know very little about most species found here, particularly the ecologically sensitive and spectacularly beautiful 179 amphibians. Astonishingly, 87% of all Western Ghats frogs are endemic and found nowhere else on the planet. Our collaborative research project […]

By Herp News KRISTEN BUTLER, UPI.com Amazonian butterflies drink turtle tears in a salt-scarce region of the rainforest. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

My res turtles wont eat green vegetables! I’ve tried lettuce and bokchoy but all they do is stare at it and ask for reptomin or meat or fruit. I’ve tried feeding them greens first in their meal, but they dont like greens. Can you please suggest some greens that they might like? Also, how can […]

Check out this video “Female Nosy Faly Delivery,” submitted by kingsnake.com user 1Sun. 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 Once nearly eaten out of existence, the green sea turtle is in the midst of a record nesting boom from South Florida to South Carolina Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

I have 2 RES turtles and whenever i com near them when they are basking they jump in the water, also they always try to escape. I always feed them when they are hungry, when i handle them i am gentle. I have had them for about 2 months, how can i get them to […]

Trevor has been developing dark spots on his shell and they do not seem to be coming in any patterns. Anyone? …read more Read more here: Turtle Times No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News What was that lizard on the side of the Humble City Cafe? Or how about that turtle in Bear Branch? Or that snake in the median on Kingwood Dr? Want to find out? Of course you do. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News In a 2010 episode of his Animal Planet series “Wild Recon,” self-proclaimed reptile expert Donald Schultz told viewers that he planned to track down an Iranian desert monitor lizard — an endangered species he described as the Holy Grail of monitors, offered the same level of protection as pandas. Go to Source […]

By Herp News A turtle rehab center in Florida turned to an unlikely substance to repair a sea turtle’s fractured shell: denture glue. Bette Zirkelbach, manager of the Turtle Hospital in Marathon, Fla., was initially stumped when someone brought in a 40-pound sea turtle suffering from a fractured…         Go to Source […]

By Herp News What was that lizard on the side of the Humble City Cafe? Or how about that turtle in Bear Branch? Or that snake in the median on Kingwood Dr? Want to find out? Of course you do. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

In what has to be the dreamiest, most romantic reptile-related news story, ever, scientists report that Amazonian butterlifes drink the tears of turtles. From LiveScience.com: The sight of butterflies flocking onto the heads of yellow-spotted river turtles in the western Amazon rain forest is not uncommon, at least if one is able to sneak up […]

By Herp News LEDYARD, Conn. (AP) — A monitor lizard that repeatedly startled residents of this rural Connecticut town before it was killed by police last month was apparently a pet that escaped from its owner's property, police said Thursday.         Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products […]

By Herp News A 650-pound female leatherback sea turtle was found stranded in a marsh by Sandy Neck Beach in Barnstable Wednesday morning, and, after a medical checkup, was ushered back out into the ocean.         Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Dentist uses denture repair adhesive to help fix endangered sea turtle's shell in Florida Keys         Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News A Ledyard man illegally owned a monitor lizard that had roamed the eastern part of town and was shot by police last month, police said. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News An 800-pound female leatherback sea turtle was found stranded in a marsh by Sandy Neck Beach in Barnstable Wednesday morning, and, after a medical checkup, was ushered back out into the ocean.         Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News LEDYARD, Conn. (AP) — Ledyard police say they have tracked down the owner of a large reptile that was shot and killed in town last month.         Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News LEDYARD — Police have charged a local man with illegal possession of a reptile after determining it was his 4-foot-long Nile Monitor Lizard that was helping itself to the residents of a chicken coop on Aug. 25.         Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products […]

By Herp News A recent study of forest in East Kalimantan, Borneo has found that orangutans travel on the ground far more often than expected. The study, published in the American Journal of Primatology, was carried out in Wehea Forest involving the use of 78 camera traps across 38 square kilometres of forest. Go to […]

By Herp News Africa’s elephant poaching crisis doesn’t just threaten a species, but imperils one of humanity’s most important links to the natural world and even our collective sanity, according to acclaimed photographers and film-makers, Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson. Authors of the book Walking Thunder – In the Footsteps of the African Elephant, Christo […]

By Herp News The sight of butterflies flocking onto the heads of yellow-spotted river turtles in the western Amazon rain forest is not uncommon, at least if one is able to sneak up on the skittish reptiles. But the reason why butterflies congregate onto the turtles may be stranger than you think: to drink their […]

Is the Prairie rattlesnake (Crotalus Viridis) losing his rattle? Terry Phillip, a naturalist at Reptile Gardens in Rapid City, thinks so. Check out this audio clip and transcript of an NPR story and tell us if you agree. Photo by kingsnake.com user DKT. …read more Read more here: King Snake No products found. Amazon Auto […]

By Herp News Mayor Adam Forgie said that in order to fix the problems in the borough of 6,400 people, he needs to see them. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News It was a lizard with a shark-like fin. That’s what Swedish researchers have discovered about the fearsome mosasaur Prognathodon, which lived in the seas of the Cretaceous Period about 70 million years ago. The discovery was based on a fossil found in Jordan in 2008. Researcher Johan Lindgren, of Lund University in […]

By Herp News A unique new fossil discovered in Jordan has given researchers fresh insight about a prehistoric sea lizard called prognathodon, as it is the first fossil to show the shape of the lizard's tale, suggesting that it swam like a shark. … Continue reading → Go to Source …read more Read more here: […]

By Herp News CANCÚN, Mexico — As our flight crossed over the Yucatán shoreline to approach the Cancún airport, we hardly could have known that we would have a rendezvous later that day with an inhabitant of the sea we had just flown over. Unlike people, sea turtles never wonder who they are or what […]

By Herp News When one thinks of bird migrations, it’s usually a north-south route that follows seasonal climates. But researchers in the Amazon have tracked, for the first time, a largely-unknown long-distance migration going east-west that sticks entirely to the Amazon Basin. Using satellite telemetry, scientists tracked a male Orinoco goose (Neochen jubata) from the […]

By Herp News As the illegal poaching of African elephants and rhinos reaches epidemic levels, other species are also suffering catastrophic losses as a direct result of poachers’ behavior. A recent incident in July, where a poisoned elephant carcass led to the death of 600 vultures near Namibia’s Bwabwata National Park, has highlighted how poachers’ […]

Congratulations to the Houston Zoo for their third clutch of Madagascar big-headed turtle babies to hatch — another landmark in the first time this species has reproduced in an institution accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. Check out more photos of the babies on the Houston Zoo’s blog! …read more Read more here: […]

By Herp News It is hard to reconcile visions of a sharp-toothed, scaly, and ferocious crocodile with anything other than a completely carnivorous diet. We have been bombarded with gory kill scenes in which crocodiles take down everything from impala to buffalo, but new evidence suggests we need to rethink crocodilians altogether. Go to Source […]

By Herp News On October 8th, the Obama administration will publicly destroy its ivory stockpile, totaling some six tons, according to a White House forum yesterday on the illegal wildlife trade. The destruction of the stockpile—via crushing—is meant to send a message that the U.S. is taking a tougher stand on illegal the wildlife trade, […]

By Herp News The Serengeti, the Congo, the Okavango Delta: many of Africa’s great wildernesses are household names, however on a continent that never fails to surprise remain vast wild lands practically unknown to the global public. One of these is the Ruaha landscape: covering 51,800 square kilometers (20,000 square miles) of southern Tanzania’s woodlands […]

Frankie, come here. I wanna talk to you. (Frankie walks over)What?You wanna go live somewhere else?Petco!NoPetsmart!No.Greta’s!No, Frankie! Listen to me. We are moving.We’re going on a walk!(Frankie heads to the gate)Frankie! No. Now listen to me. Dad got a new job and we are moving away from here. (Frankie looks around the yard.)But I like […]

No matter how much you love snakes, this homeowner’s plight might be too much for you. From the Carroll County News: Sometime after July 23, property owner Jess Christensen started noticing a lot of snake activity in the evening around his house, located on County Road 717 just north of Metalton. “Really what really hit […]

By Herp News Chewy the bluetongue lizard has returned home after a seven-month nap – only to find his spot has been filled by another family pet. read more Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Kookaburras, koalas and kangaroos—Australia is well known for its charismatic animals and vast, seemingly untamable, wild spaces. But throughout the country, the national parks and reserves that protect these unique animals and ecosystems have come under increasing threat. New rules and relaxed regulations, which bolster immediate economic growth, are putting pressure on […]

By Herp News On 9/11/13, Tortoise Energy Capital Fund's 3.95% Series C Mandatory Redeemable Preferred Shares (NYSE: TYY.PRC) will trade ex-dividend, for its monthly dividend of $0.0329, payable on 10/1/13. As a percentage of TYY.PRC's recent share price of $10.15, this dividend works out to approximately 0.32%. On an annualized basis, the current yield is […]