By Herp News Local youngsters got an opportunity to get up close and personal with some slithery creatures last week when the Tsawwassen Town Centre Mall hosted a session with Mike’s Critters. The mall is running children’s programs every weekday during the two weeks of Spring Break. Go to Source …read more Read more here: […]

Usually when the words “endangered wildlife” and “smuggling” get used in a headline, the story is set in some exotic tropical location. Not this time. From Syracuse.com: A North Country woman who smuggled more than 200 turtles, alligators, iguanas and other wildlife into Canada pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court in Syracuse. The endangered and […]

By Herp News Scientists have decoded the genome of the western painted turtle , one of the most abundant turtles on Earth, finding clues to their longevity and ability to survive without oxygen during long winters spent hibernating in ice-covered ponds. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto […]

By Herp News Early on a Sunday morning last summer, the villagers of Epulu awoke to the sounds of shots and screaming. In the eastern reaches of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, that can often mean another round of violence and ethnic murder is under way. In this case, however, something even more horrific […]

By Herp News Sprinkled with pollen, buzzing bees fly from one blossom to another, collecting sweet nectar from brilliantly colored flowers. Bees tend to symbolize the pollination process, but there are many wild insects that carry out the same function. Unfortunately, wild insect populations are in decline, and, according to a recent study, adding more […]

By Herp News Byline: Credit Crunch? not at The Lizard RNLI’s SOS Day events! Page Content: The Lizard Lifeboat station’s fundraising group has raised over £1,600 for the RNLI’s biggest annual fundraising day. Known nationally as SOS day, Friday 30 January was a great way for everyone to have some fun, whilst raising funds to […]

By Herp News Tortoise Capital Advisors today announced the introduction of the Tortoise North American Energy Independence Fund, an open-end mutual fund that invests primarily in equity securit Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Zoo Atlanta officials are looking to build a new facility to house its amphibian and reptile complex. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News On a recent canyoneering trip to southern Utah, I saw several small, healthy-looking lizards darting along the canyon walls. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Conservationists working to save the Sumatran rhino—one of the world’s most imperiled mammals—heard good news this week as WWF-Indonesia has found evidence of at least one Sumatran rhino persisting in the Indonesian state of Kalimantan, located on the island of Borneo. Small populations of Sumatran rhinos (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) survive on Sumatra and […]

By Herp News When the research pushes you there, you hit the sand. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News One kilometer off the Philippine island of Palawan lays the Rasa Island Wildlife Sanctuary; here forest grows unimpeded from a coral island surrounded by mangroves and coral reefs. Although tiny, over a hundred bird species have been recorded on the island along with a major population of large flying foxes, while in […]

A new gecko study from the University of Akron in Ohio may help scientists develop an underwater adhesive. From National Geographic: To examine a gecko’s cling, [study leader Alyssa] Stark and colleagues put harnesses on six tokay geckos (Gekko gecko) and put them on four surfaces which varied in their wettability, or their degree of […]

By Herp News ATLANTA (AP) — Zoo Atlanta officials are looking to build a new facility to house its amphibian and reptile complex. Keisha Hines, Zoo Atlanta spokeswoman, says zoo officials have filed a building permit application with the City of Atlanta to move forward on a new complex to replace the existing World of […]

By Herp News Tortoise North American Energy Corp. today announced that as of March 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $258.5 million and its unaudited Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Tortoise Pipeline & Energy Fund, Inc. today announced that as of March 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $382.1 million and its unau Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Tortoise Power and Energy Infrastructure Fund, Inc. today announced that as of March 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $236.6 million an Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Tortoise Energy Independence Fund, Inc. today announced that as of March 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $412.0 million and its unaudi Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Small coastal fisheries are having an outsize impact on sea turtle populations, a new study finds. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Reports unaudited net asset value $1.3B, or $27.79 per share as of March 31. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Tortoise MLP Fund, Inc. today announced that as of March 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $1.9 billion and its unaudited net asset valu Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Tortoise Energy Capital Corp. today announced that as of March 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $1.0 billion and its unaudited net asse Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Tortoise Energy Infrastructure Corp. today announced that as of March 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $2.0 billion and its unaudited n Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Small coastal fisheries are having an outsize impact on sea turtle populations, a new study finds. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

Scientists may have found a reliable method of monitoring populations of threatened reptiles and amphibians, using a technique once thought limited to the tracking of warm-blooded species. From Science Live: Camera traps are frequently used to take pictures and monitor populations of large mammals like tigers and leopards, but until now, they haven’t been used […]

By Herp News 2013 Turtle Trot 5K:Race packets include official Lovers Key Turtle Trot 5K t-shirt, official race number, course map, and general instructions. Proceeds benefit The Friends of Lovers Key, Inc – (A 501(c)(3) Citizen Support Org.) $25 by 5/5/12 $30 after Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. […]

By Herp News For generations, hundreds of Southwest Idaho families make the trek up the mountain at Lizard Butte for Easter services before the sun comes up. This historic sunrise service near Marsing is more than three-quarters of a century old. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto […]

By Herp News Tourism is our state’s second largest industry, and fourth largest private sector employer. As children around the country enjoy spring break, the state of South Dakota gears up for the beginning of tourism season. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News The savannah monitor lizard stolen from the Fresno Discovery Center is back at home after he was fou Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News A Central California science museum has recovered one of four reptiles that were taken by a burglar who was caught on surveillance video shoving the lizard and three snakes into a garbage bag. The 3 1/2-foot … Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Federal wildlife officials are recommending that a rare California lizard be removed from the endangered species list, saying the reptile has recovered. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Caught with a corner of the market. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

Scientists have squenced the genome of the western painted turtle (Chrysemys picta bellii). From RedOrbit.com: Publishing the work in this week’s Genome Biology, researchers describe that much like the turtle itself, the rate of genome evolution is very slow. Their data show that turtle genomes evolve at a rate that is about a third that […]

By Herp News Captain Kirk and the reptile from the 1967 “Arena” episode learn they aren’t as spry as they used to be. read more Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News A reptile thief is still on the run. Caught on camera overnight breaking into Fresno’s Discovery Center. CBS 47 has the video that can help catch him. The center on Winery Avenue, near McKinley and Chestnut in Fresno recently re-opened.   There’s been plenty of police activity there. CBS 47′s Lemor Abrams is […]

By Herp News Police are looking for a man who was caught on surveillance video at the Fresno Discovery Center. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Madagascar’s color-changing chameleons originated in Africa and crossed over to the island some 65 million years ago, concludes a study published this week in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

Resistant bacterial infections and human immune system disorders may one day be conquered with the help of alligator blood. After a lifetime of fascination with and study of crocodilians, Mark Merchant of McNeese State University has focused his research on the antibacterial power of alligator serum. Merchant knew from what he had seen that the […]

By Herp News This notice provides stockholders of Tortoise Power and Energy Infrastructure Fund, Inc. with information regarding the distribution paid on March 28, 2013 and cumulati Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News The snapping turtle that was seized from Arneek Wright’s home Monday, Mar. 25, 2013. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links