By Herp News Authorities have drained a lake in southern Germany to search for a turtle, after an eight-year-old boy's ankle was bitten while he was swimming last week. The boy's Achilles tendon was cut through twice, and the risk of another attack has made the search urgent. Go to Source …read more Read more […]

By Herp News On 8/13/13, 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 9/3/13. As a percentage of TYY.PRC's recent share price of $10.18, this dividend works out to approximately 0.32%. On an annualized basis, the current yield is […]

By Herp News Flying Lizard Motorsports won today's Orion Energy Systems 245 at Road America with its No 45 Venezuela / eSilicon Porsche 911 GT3 Cup car, driven by Spencer Pumpelly and Nelson Canache Jr., with Dion von Moltke and Seth Neiman bringing the sister PR Newswire / eSilicon No 44 home in 5th place. […]

By Herp News Around twelve thousand of years ago, the Amazon was home to a menagerie of giant creatures: the heavily armored glyptodons, the elephant-sized ground sloth, and the rhino-like toxodons among others. But by 10,000 B.C. these monsters were largely gone, possibly due to overhunting by humans or climatic changes. There’s no question that […]

By Herp News Researchers have decoded a previously unknown molecular mechanism in the fertilization process of vertebrates. The team of scientists have identified a specific protein in frog egg extracts that the male basal bodies need, but that is produced only by the reproductive cells of the female. This “teamwork” between the egg and sperm […]

By Herp News Scientists have completed the genome sequencing and analysis of the endangered Chinese alligator (Alligator sinensis). This is the first published crocodilian genome, providing a good explanation of how terrestrial-style reptiles adapt to aquatic environments and temperature-dependent sex determination. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto […]

By Herp News IN THE PUBLIC EYE: Eagle Vines Vineyards and Golf Club in American Canyon, Calif. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News TRIPLETT, N.C. (AP) — The way Eustace Conway sees it, there's the natural world, as exemplified by his Turtle Island Preserve in the Blue Ridge Mountains. And then there's the “plastic, imitation” world that most other humans inhabit. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto […]

By Herp News Landlocked in the navel of South America, the forests, wetlands and savannahs of Paraguay boast rich biodiversity and endemic species, yet the unique landscapes of Paraguay also face increasing threats, primarily from agricultural expansion. Controlled burns and clear cutting have become common practice as wildlands are converted for soy and cattle production. […]

By Herp News Germans have drained a lake in a determined search for a turtle blamed for an attack on a young swimmer. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News • Click here for step by step directions • Click here for our interactive map of all the walks Distance 7 miles (11km) Classification Moderate Duration 3 hours Begins Kynance Cove OS grid reference SW6813 Walk in a nutshell A rangy circuit resembling the outline of a bat that will take you […]

Check out this video “Basic Reptile Incubator,” submitted by kingsnake.com user PigZilla50317. 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 reptile park that is the only facility in Australia to milk the funnel-web spiders for venom normally has a lull in winter. But the poisonous arachnids are coming steadily through the door.         Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News A reptile park that is the only facility in Australia to milk the funnel-web spiders for venom normally has a lull in winter. But the poisonous arachnids are coming steadily through the door.         Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News A reptile park that is the only facility in Australia to milk the funnel-web spiders for venom normally has a lull in winter. But the poisonous arachnids are coming steadily through the door.         Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News A reptile park that is the only facility in Australia to milk the funnel-web spiders for venom normally has a lull in winter. But the poisonous arachnids are coming steadily through the door.         Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News A reptile park that is the only facility in Australia to milk the funnel-web spiders for venom normally has a lull in winter. But the poisonous arachnids are coming steadily through the door.         Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News By Samantha Allen sallen@lowellsun.com CHELMSFORD — Fire officials say a home on High Street was unoccupied at the time a fire started on the second floor, where five pets were rescued. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News By Samantha Allen sallen@lowellsun.com CHELMSFORD — Fire officials say a home on High Street was unoccupied at the time a fire started on the second floor, where five pets were rescued. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News P REPARE yourselves for another onslaught of Turtle Mania. Filming is right now underway for a new movie on the four wise-cracking, pizza-eating mutants who are sworn to defeat the forces of evil from their sewer hideout in New York. The Ninja Turtles – katana-wielding Leonardo, free-spirited nunchaku master Michelangelo, technological genius […]

By Herp News Revered by the Vietnamese, the creature has been made ill by pollution, but Hanoians are now struggling to clean its lake Hundreds of people are working round the clock to clean up a lake in the heart of Vietnam's capital in hopes of saving a rare, ailing giant turtle that is considered […]

By Herp News REDLANDS — The California Turtle and Tortoise Club of the Inland Empire held its annual Turtle and Tortoise Show on Saturday at the Redlands Senior Center. Live exhibits, educational displays and turtle and tortoise adoptions were highlights. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News By Samantha Allen sallen@lowellsun.com CHELMSFORD — Fire officials say a home on High Street was unoccupied at the time a fire started on the second floor, where five pets were rescued. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Does size matter? When referring to primate brain size and its relation to social intelligence, scientists at Duke University do not think the answer is a simple yes or no. In the past, scientists have correlated large brain size to large group size. However, in a new study published in PLoS ONE, […]

By Herp News The African rock python that killed two boys in Campbellton on Monday was not the only banned species at Reptile Ocean, officials say. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

Snowmelt is decreasing all over the United States, putting human endeavors and wildlife survival in jeopardy. One victim of climate change is the Cascades frog, a denizen of the mountains of the Pacifc Northwest known for his distinctive “chuckle.” From NPR: In Washington’s Olympic Mountains things are looking dryer than normal. On a recent day, […]

By Herp News The pet store Reptile Ocean in Campbellton, N.B., where two young boys were killed by a python snake as they slept in the apartment above. (CP) Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Florida police officer rescues hatchling sea turtles at resort         Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Homer, a turtle found off Greece after being deliberately blinded, will live out his days in a Newquay aquarium A loggerhead turtle that had its eyes gouged out, probably by a Greek fisherman to protect fishing nets, was today starting a new life at a Cornish aquarium. The large male turtle, called […]

By Herp News About 15 animals will be seized from the Reptile Ocean building in Campbellton where two boys died Monday after apparently being strangled by a python that escaped an enclosure. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Jean-Claude Savoie, the owner of the python that the RCMP says killed two boys in northern New Brunswick earlier this week, did government officials a favour by taking in the animal and several others, a former employee told Global News. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. […]

By Herp News Certain closed-end funds managed by Tortoise Capital Advisors declared the following distributions today: Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News A biological survey of forests slated for destruction for a palm oil project in Cameroon has uncovered 23 species of large mammals, including the world’s most endangered chimpanzee subspecies, the Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes ellioti). The project in question, operated by U.S.-based company Herakles Farms, has come under stiff criticism both locally […]

By Herp News The New Brunswick Department of Natural Resources has obtained a warrant to search the Reptile Ocean building in Campbellton where two boys died Monday after apparently being strangled by a python that escaped an enclosure. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News About 15 animals will be seized from the Reptile Ocean building in Campbellton where two boys died Monday after apparently being strangled by a python that escaped an enclosure. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

In yet more news about just why rattlesnakes are so vital to our ecology, the “magazine of the west,” Cowboys and Indians, tries to explain why human fear and persecution of these animals are so misguided: While it’s not especially natural to empathize with beady-eyed creatures that have been demonized throughout history and rounded up […]

By Herp News Organization has advocated that large constricting snakes be banned as pets for safety reasons, because they can carry disease and because they are stripped from their own habitat Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News It wasn't your garden-variety New Mexico lizard that Thomas Sullivan found hiding in the bushes. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — A Florida police officer saved nearly 100 baby sea turtles when he gathered the newly hatched creatures from a hotel parking lot and street and released them into the Gulf of Mexico. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Aug. 6, 2013: A Royal Canadian Mounted Police cruiser sits outside the Reptile Ocean exotic pet store in Campbellton, New Brunswick, Canada. AP/The Canadian Press Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links