By Herp News A blogger claims to have spotted a lizard in a photograph of Mars. While studying a picture of the Red Planet taken by the Curiosity… Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

We actually found some good news about amphibians. No, really. From the Vancouver, Canada, Globe and Mail: Scientists at the Vancouver Aquarium have sprung into action, as part of an effort to prevent an endangered frog population from becoming extinct in eastern British Columbia. The Rocky Mountain population of northern leopard frogs plummeted by the […]

By Herp News A science blogger with a keen sense of vision claims to have spotted a lizard meandering around Mars. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News A science blogger with a keen sense of vision claims to have spotted a lizard meandering around Mars. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News PALM BEACH, Fla. — Rescue workers found a loggerhead turtle stuck in between the rocks on Palm Beach Island. The 200 pound turtle was found on the northern end at the Palm Beach Inlet at the Jetty. Palm Beach Fire Rescue was called in to free the trapped animal. … Go to […]

By Herp News Scientists have recently taken rare and incredible footage of a giant anteater with a camera trap in the Barba Azul Nature Reserve of Bolivia. This footage captures a giant anteater wallowing in a pit of mud. The animal lies down, rolling around and scratching itself, for a period of, what seems to […]

With each passing year, as the various exporting countries close or open their seasons and/or shipping quotas the herps we see in the pet trade change. Availability of some changes from abundance to rarity, of others from rarity to abundance. Two examples are the Colombian horned frog, Ceratophrys calcarata, and wild caught examples of the […]

By Herp News The Russian Far East is one of the wildest places on Earth: where giant tigers roam snow-covered forests and the world’s biggest owls stalk frozen rivers. Bordering northern China and North Korea, the forests of Primorye are known for the diversity of habitats, including coastal forests along the Sea of Japan, vast […]

After treatment at Marathon’s Turtle Hospital for digestive tract impaction, a loggerhead sea turtle was returned to the ocean off of the Florida Keys on Friday. From Nature World News: The roughly 6-pound, foot-long animal nicknamed “Charley” was first located by a fisherman who spotted it floating in a patch of weeds 22 miles off […]

By Herp News Over the past 30 years, amphibians worldwide have been infected with a lethal skin disease known as the amphibian chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis). “The disease can cause rapid mortality, with infected frogs of susceptible species dying within weeks of infection in the laboratory.” Jodi Rowley, a herpetologist with the Australian Museum told […]

By Herp News A new consensus statement by 520 scientists from around the world warns that global environmental harm is putting at risk the happiness and well-being of this and future generations. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News A tortoise emerged triumphant from one of Oxford’s weird and wonderful traditions over the weekend. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News In this installment of Zoo Spotlight, Menominee Park Zoo staff introduces us to Dash, an African Spurred Tortoise. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

Check out this video “Corn Snake Morphs,” submitted by kingsnake.com user boa2cobras. 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 Tiny turtle Leroy was rescued by a fisherman in the Great Barrier Reef, suffering from floating syndrome. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Rio de Janeiro, May 27 (IANS/EFE) A pre-historic tortoise that lived in the Brazilian Amazon is the most likely ancestor of the tortoises that live in Ecuador's Galapagos archipelago today, paleontologists said. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News One of our photographers was shooting video of a couch floating in the floodwaters. When he zoomed in, he spotted a lizard and some of the biggest coach roaches we’ve… Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News A Columbia restaurant chain has a $1,5000 penalty for employees not being paid for hours worked. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

Thomas Cobb’s snakes: Many of us have followed the Thomas Cobb situation in Utah in which Cobb was unaware of a city ordinance requiring a permit to keep exotic animals. The language of the ordinance was ambiguous, and although some citizens wanted officials to enforce that Cobb only be allowed one pet, Cobb prevailed and […]

Supermodel Cara Delevingne was quite the herp-loving little girl, reports heatworld.com. Cara then: Cara now: Whether you grow up to strut the runway, crack genetic codes, or rule the world, just keep on herpin’, little girls! …read more Read more here: King Snake No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News What started out as a small reptile rescue run out of a local couple’s home has bloomed into the Great Lakes Zoological Society’s “World of Discovery” center, an indoor amphibian and reptile zoo of about 100 animals, located just west of Ann Arbor. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com […]

By Herp News Parliament welcomed a surprise visitor yesterday _ a two-metre-long monitor lizard that made its home in an air duct. Officials were alerted to the reptile's presence by a member of the press who spotted it through a metal grille in the ceiling. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No […]

By Herp News VALHALLA, N.Y., May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ –  Turtle Beach is excited to announce that it is working with Microsoft to develop market-leading audio solutions for Xbox One. The two companies will leverage … Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Sea turtle nest No. 1 was found this week in Seagrove by Ann Stuart. It is a Loggerhead. Published: Thursday, May 23, 2013 at 13:20 PM. The turtles are back. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Brett Smith for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online If you see a turtle crossing a busy road – pick it up and send it in the direction it was originally going on the other side of the road, advises the advocacy group American Tortoise Rescue (ATR), which is celebrating their 13th annual […]

By Herp News Parliament welcomed a surprise visitor yesterday _ a two-metre-long monitor lizard that made its home in an air duct. Officials were alerted to the reptile's presence by a member of the press who spotted it through a metal grille in the ceiling. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No […]

By Herp News What started out as a small reptile rescue run out of a local couple’s home has bloomed into the Great Lakes Zoological Society’s “World of Discovery” center, an indoor amphibian and reptile zoo of about 100 animals, located just west of Ann Arbor. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com […]

The late spring sun shown brightly and the woodlands were verdant with newly greened leaves. Crows cawed over head and a broad-winged hawk circled lazily. I was clambering over some sizable tumbled boulders. To my left was a roller coaster that, come sundown, would be zipping boisterous, screaming, throngs up and down inclines that I […]

In a nice change of pace from news of species and habitat loss worldwide, meet the ten newly identified species scientists have selected as the best and most interesting of last year — including a new snake and a new frog. From Science Daily: An amazing glow-in-the-dark cockroach, a harp-shaped carnivorous sponge and the smallest […]

By Herp News All rights reserved . Credit: Hilton/Greenpeace An Olive Ridley turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) swims in the open blue ocean of the Pacific. Image caption:  An Olive Ridley turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) swims in the open blue ocean of the Pacific. When I heard it was World Turtle Day , I hatched a plan. I […]

By Herp News Tiny turtle Leroy was rescued by a fisherman in the Great Barrier Reef, suffering from floating syndrome. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News What started out as a small reptile rescue run out of a local couple’s home has bloomed into the Great Lakes Zoological Society’s “World of Discovery” center, an indoor amphibian and reptile zoo of about 100 animals, located just west of Ann Arbor. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com […]

By Herp News LUCKY turtle Leroy, who almost died from floating syndrome, will be on display in a far north Queensland aquarium for World Turtle Day. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News An amazing glow-in-the-dark cockroach, a harp-shaped carnivorous sponge and the smallest vertebrate on Earth are just three of the newly discovered top 10 species selected by a global committee of taxonomists. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News An amazing glow-in-the-dark cockroach, a harp-shaped carnivorous sponge and the smallest vertebrate on Earth are just three of the newly discovered top 10 species selected by a global committee of taxonomists. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Famed anthropologist and conservationist Richard Leakey has proposed a possible solution to the hugely controversial Serengeti road: build an elevated highway. Leakey made the remarks during a conference at Rutgers University on May 14th, as reported by Live Science. The Tanzanian government’s plans to build a road through the remote, northern Serengeti […]

By Herp News TWO fire crews were called to a flat in Taunton this evening (May 21) after a fire broke out in a reptile tank. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News The first sea turtle nest of the season in Horry County has been reported on the beach near 69 th Avenue North. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News What started out as a small reptile rescue run out of a local couple’s home has bloomed into the Great Lakes Zoological Society’s “World of Discovery” center, an indoor amphibian and reptile zoo of about 100 animals, located just west of Ann Arbor. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com […]

By Herp News A two-metre monitor lizard was found crawling through air ducts in the ceiling inside Government House building on Wednesday morning, reports said. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links