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This image of a Firebelly Toad, uploaded by kingsnake.com user radar357, is our herp photo of the day! Upload your own reptile and amphibian photos photos at gallery.kingsnake.com, and you could see them featured here! …read more Read more here: King Snake No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Las Vegas, NV (KTNV) — The Las Vegas Reptile Expo was held at Santa Fe Station on Saturday and Sunday. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News One of the highlights of traveling to exotic planes is seeing mother animals with their babies so here is a collection of a some pictures I’ve taken over the years. They range from amphibians in Panama to orangutans in Borneo. I hope you enjoy. Happy Mother’s Day! Go to Source …read more […]

By Herp News A tagged juvenile loggerhead sea turtle that traveled some 2,000 miles on ocean currents was expected to make a full recovery after being rescued off the Florida Keys, hospital officials said Saturday. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

A fence that can withstand the force of a large sulcata who wants on the other side is very important. Postponing the installation of such a fence can prove to be heartbreaking, I can attest to this. Before we installed a suitable fence, Frankie disappeared from his yard. Without close supervision Frankie made a few […]

By Herp News A young turtle found floating in a weed patch off the coast of the Keys is expected to make a full recovery. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News An injured loggerhead turtle was saved by a group of good Samaritans, state wildlife police, U.S. Coast Guardsmen and Coast Guard Auxiliary volunteers Sunday. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News May is the official start of sea turtle nesting season and Miami-Dade County is proud to have a new “Turtle Truck” this season to help in its conservation efforts. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

California AB 339 (the “swap meet” bill) has been amended to exclude reptile and aquatic trade shows. The bill has been amended in Assembly, read a second time, and re-referred to Committee on Appropriations. Thanks to your voices through USARK’s action alerts and collaboration between PIJAC and USARK, reptile and aquatic shows will now be […]

An Alaskan firefighter was fighting forest fires in Idaho last summer, and he, like some of his other firefighter buddies, caught a few snakes. He brought one, or possibly five, garter snakes home with him, in a “snakes on a plane” incident with varying contradictory narratives. The upshot? While garter snakes are numerous in Idaho, […]

This image of a Water Dragon, uploaded by kingsnake.com user jeffb, is our herp photo of the day! Upload your own reptile and amphibian photos photos at gallery.kingsnake.com, and you could see them featured here! …read more Read more here: King Snake No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Biologists have created the first large-scale evolutionary family tree for every snake and lizard around the globe. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Senior citizens Gyanendra Sharma and Beena Sharma got a shock on Wednesday morning as they got ready to have their morning cuppa when they saw a dead lizard in a milk sachet.         Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News We don't have road houses around here. We have the Lizard Lounge. But transplant any of the four guitarists at last night's Lizard show to any honky tonk outside Nashville (or Austin or Biloxi) and they'd crush the competition. No disrespect to the fine Southern swamp rock bands, but our guys are […]

By Herp News Lesser known than coral reefs, marine seagrass ecosystems are rich in biodiversity and are powerhouses when it comes to sequestering carbon dioxide. Yet, much remains unknown about the ecology of seagrass beds, including detailed information on how seagrass spread their seeds and colonize new area. Now a recent study in Marine Ecology […]

Scientists at George Washington University have mapped out the first large-scale evolutionary family tree for every snake and lizard known to exist. From Phys.org: The findings were recently published in the journal BMC Evolutionary Biology. Alex Pyron, the Robert F. Griggs Assistant Professor of Biology in GW’s Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, along with […]

By Herp News A common little moth turns out to have the best ears in the animal kingdom. According to a new study in Biology Letters, the greater wax moth (Galleria mellonella) is capable of hearing frequencies up to 300,000 hertz (300kHz), which is 15 times the frequency humans can hear at their prime, around […]

By Herp News When a resident on Iron Springs Road near Fairfax was bitten by a rattlesnake last week as temperatures soared, it served as a reminder that the potentially deadly reptile is once again active in Marin. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News It's a monument to the cold-blooded, an inn for those who slither, a schoolhouse for those who fear reptiles. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

With Eugenio at the controls, the motor canoe “Mai Kai” nudged her way through emergent grasses in the shallow channel. If lucky, we’d be able to reach a few of the water lettuce beds that floated on the open waters of the interior coche (oxbow). We were already amidst some chorusing treefrogs, but it seemed […]

By Herp News Custom label manufacturer Lizard Label announces the addition of tamper-evident labels to its custom capabilities catalogue. (PRWeb May 09, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/product_labels/custom_labels/prweb10706184.htm Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

This image of a Western Diamondback Rattlesnake, uploaded by kingsnake.com user Vittorio_K, is our herp photo of the day! Upload your own reptile and amphibian photos photos at gallery.kingsnake.com, and you could see them featured here! …read more Read more here: King Snake No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News When a resident on Iron Springs Road near Fairfax was bitten by a rattlesnake last week as temperatures soared, it served as a reminder that the potentially deadly reptile is once again active in Marin. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News It sounds ludicrous, but it could just be true: scientists say seagulls may be responsible for hundreds of southern right whale moralities off the Argentine coastline. Since 2003, scientists have documented the deaths of 605 southern right whales (Eubalaena australis) near Península Valdés which the whales use as a nursery. Notably, 88 […]

By Herp News A carnivorous, cannibalistic tadpole may play a role in understanding the evolution and development of digestive organs, according to new research. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

Canadian researchers have discovered fossils of dog-sized dinosaurs, suggesting the prehistoric reptiles came in a much wider range of sizes than once believed. From The Province: A newly identified species of dome-headed dinosaur roughly the size of a large dog once roamed the plains of southern Alberta, a team of Canadian scientists announced Tuesday. The […]

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By Herp News When a resident on Iron Springs Road near Fairfax was bitten by a rattlesnake last week as temperatures soared, it served as a reminder that the potentially deadly reptile is once again active in Marin. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News A female chameleon recently adopted by Christina Hazelton, of Lebanon, founder of Upper Valley Reptile Group, is shown off to the public during an open house in Norwich. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Local researchers and wildlife guards say 17 armed elephant poachers have gained access to Dzanga Bai, a large waterhole and clearing where up to 200 forest elephants visit daily in the Central African Republic (CAR)’s Dzanga-Ndoki National Park. WWF, which works in the region but has recently evacuated due to rising violence, […]

By Herp News A new video highlights the work of Badru Mugerwa as he sets and monitors 60 remote camera traps in one of the most rugged tropical forests on Earth: Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda. Mugerwa is working with the TEAM Network, run by Conservation International, which monitors mammal and bird populations in […]

By Herp News On March 21st, the organization Save the Elephants posted on their Facebook page that two African elephants had been poached inside a nearby reserve: “Sad news from the north of Kenya. Usually the national reserves are safe havens for elephants, and they know it. But in the last two weeks two of […]

By Herp News What do children’s toys, balloons, mattresses and plastic bags have in common? They can, along with more non-biodegradable pollutants, be found in the belly of a sperm whale, the topic of a new study in the Marine Pollution Bulletin. The same whale that swallowed Jonah from the Bible, Geppetto from Collodi’s Pinocchio, […]

By Herp News CHICAGO, May 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – Turtle Wax® has had enough of the extended winter and cold spring blanketing the country.  With warmer temperatures forecasted this week, Turtle Wax is responding with … Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

I had never thought much about the color gray. I considered it a drab color, a color that I had come to associate with a few of the species that were not then very high on my herp “Iwannasee” list. But then I met a skink and I realized that beauty truly was in the […]

Have you been enjoying the increasingly mild winters across much of the United States, particularly the Midwest, in recent years? Wildlife, including some reptiles and amphibians like the wood frog, pictured right, definitely haven’t. From the University of Wisconsin: In a report published May 2 in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, a […]

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By Herp News A turtle-crossing sign on River Road in Bedminster. / NJ Press Media file 2010 BEDMINSTER — Township officials are looking to spend more than $210,000 on a series of tunnels that won’t be used by motorists, cyclists or pedestrians. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon […]

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