By Herp News Climate change could see dozens of lizard species becoming extinct within the next 50 years, according to new research. The often one-directional evolutionary adaptation of certain lizard species’ reproductive modes could see multiple extinctions as the global temperature increases. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon […]

By Herp News In order for dwindling lion populations to survive in Africa, large-scale fencing projects may be required according to new research in Ecology Letters. Recent estimates have put lion populations down to 15,000-35,000, a massive drop from a population that was thought to be around 100,000 in 1960. The worsening plight of lions […]

In Florida, when the environment got out balance, the government decided to license hunters to slaughter snakes (and blows it, but that’s another story). In India, when environmental degradation resulted in the deaths of snakes, at least one man decided to restore the stripped tree cover that had once shielded them from the blazing sun. […]

By Herp News Scientists have revealed in a new study, for the first time, the presence of the pathogenic chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) in amphibians sampled in Singapore. And the American bullfrog may be a central player in the spread of the disease. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. […]

By Herp News When the Living Desert Zoo and Gardens State Park received a $1 million gift to build a new reptile house last year, it presented the state with a unique situation. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Climate change could see dozens of lizard species becoming extinct within the next 50 years, according to new research. The often one-directional evolutionary adaptation of certain lizard species’ reproductive modes could see multiple extinctions as the global temperature increases. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon […]

By Herp News Thayer Cueter, Snohomish county’s very own “Frog Lady” (and sometimes ” Turtle Lady”) poses a turtle while Blake Siegert, 8, of Lynnwood, snaps a photo with his portable game player Sunday at the Snohomish Public Library. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

The American Pet Products Association (APPA) released its he 2013-2014 National Pet Owners Survey, and found pet ownership in the United States is at an all-time high, with reptile ownership on the rise. From KHOU.com: While the number of households owning a pet has increased in all categories from the last survey, the proportion of […]

By Herp News NEW YORK and VALHALLA, N.Y., March 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Turtle Beach , leader in gaming audio, in partnership with Major League Gaming (MLG) , the world's largest eSports league, is making its full … Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Thayer Cueter, Snohomish county's very own “Frog Lady” (and sometimes “Turtle Lady”) poses a turtle while Blake Siegert, 8, of Lynnwood, snaps a photo with his portable game player Sunday at the Snohomish Public Library. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Thayer Cueter, Snohomish county's very own “Frog Lady” (and sometimes “Turtle Lady”) poses a turtle while Blake Siegert, 8, of Lynnwood, snaps a photo with his portable game player Sunday at the Snohomish Public Library. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News While a new study warns that up to 100M sharks are killed annually, there are signs out of China that demand for shark fin may be on the decline. A study published last week in the journal Marine Policy estimated shark deaths at 100 million in 2000 and 97 million in 2010, […]

By Herp News THE fossilised remains of a new species of lizard that lived 125 million years ago have been discovered in Spain. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News More than 60 percent of Africa’s forest elephants have been killed in the past decade due to the ivory trade, reports a new study published in the online journal PLOS ONE. The study warns that the diminutive elephant species — genetically distinct from the better-known savanna elephant — is rapidly heading toward […]

Researchers have discovered fossils in Panama of species that may be the missing link between North and South American crocodilians. From LiveScience.com: The skulls belong to two new species of ancient crocodilians (a group that today contains alligators, crocodiles, caimans and gharials) that lived about 20 million years ago during the Miocene epoch. These new […]

By Herp News The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) is often hailed by scholars and conservationists as the most effective international environmental agreement. On March 3, CITES celebrates its 40th anniversary. What accounts for its success? In the following interview, CITES Secretary-General John Scanlon reflects on the convention’s strengths and weaknesses. Go […]

By Herp News Yesterday, Thailand’s Prime Minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, committed to ending the ivory trade in her country. Her announcement came during the opening of the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora (CITES) in Bangkok, which seeks to regulate trade in biodiversity across borders. Wildlife groups say that Thailand’s […]

By Herp News Thayer Cueter, Snohomish county's very own “Frog Lady” (and sometimes “Turtle Lady”) poses a turtle while Blake Siegert, 8, of Lynnwood, snaps a photo with his portable game player Sunday at the Snohomish Public Library. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Sometime in the late 1600s the world’s last dodo perished on the island of Mauritius. No one knows how it spent its final moments—rather in the grip of some invasive predator or simply fading away from loneliness—but with its passing came an icon of extinction, that final breath passed by the last […]

By Herp News Thayer Cueter, Snohomish county's very own “Frog Lady” (and sometimes “Turtle Lady”) poses a turtle while Blake Siegert, 8, of Lynnwood, snaps a photo with his portable game player Sunday at the Snohomish Public Library. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Thayer Cueter, Snohomish county's very own “Frog Lady” (and sometimes “Turtle Lady”) poses a turtle while Blake Siegert, 8, of Lynnwood, snaps a photo with his portable game player Sunday at the Snohomish Public Library. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Thousands of house fires are started each year by clothes dryers clogged with lint, but can an infomercial product called the Lint Lizard help reduce a fire risk? Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News The numbers are staggering — more than 4,600 sea turtle nests in 2012, the nests doubling in two years, three straight years of thousands of nests laid along the coast. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News CHAPEL HILL — A University of North Carolina paleontologist and others will unveil a 12-foot-long skeletal reconstruction of a prehistoric reptile whose fossils were found in a quarry in Durham. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News BIRMINGHAM, Alabama: The giant Pacific leatherback turtle, known for its arduous 6,000-mile ocean trek from the U.S. West Coast to breeding grounds in Indonesia, could go extinct within 20 years as its population continues to plummet, scientists say. Read more… Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. […]

By Herp News When the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) meets from March 3-14 in Bangkok for its 16th Conference of Parties (CoP16), elephants and rhinos will be at the top of the agenda. While there are no proposals to open up trade in either elephant ivory […]

Alice Cooper needed a python for his stage performance in Switzerland later this month. When concert organizers reached out to the Lausanne Vivarium for help, they found out the reptile center was in danger of closing due to lack of funds. From The Local, an English-language Swizz newspaper: The Caprices Festival decided it could lend […]

By Herp News CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — A University of North Carolina paleontologist and others will unveil a 12-foot-long skeletal reconstruction of a prehistoric reptile whose fossils were found in a quarry in Durham. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News A University of North Carolina paleontologist and others will unveil a 12-foot-long skeletal reconstruction of a prehistoric reptile whose fossils were found in a quarry in Durham. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News A key Congo wildlife reserve has lost 75 percent of its elephants in just 15 years due to poaching to meet Asian demand for ivory, reports a new survey by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and Democratic Republic of Congo authorities. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products […]

By Herp News Researchers have radio-tracked frogs for the first time in Madagascar. Attaching tiny radio transmitters weighing 0.3-0.35 grams (1/100 of an ounce) to 36 rainbow frogs (Scaphiophryne gottlebei), the research team tracked the movement of the colorful frogs through rugged canyons in Madagascar’s Isalo Massif. They found that the frogs have a short […]

By Herp News When countries meet in Bangkok, Thailand for the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) 16th Conference of Parties (CoP16), to be held from March 3-14, they’ll consider 70 proposals submitted by 55 States regarding a range of species, from polar bears to turtles and tropical […]

By Herp News Federal fisheries officials are studying new types of turtle excluder devices for shrimp nets after a federal rule that would have required the devices in skimmer trawls was withdrawn last year. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Scientists document dramatic decline in the Pacific leatherback sea turtle's numbers Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Federal fisheries officials are studying new types of turtle excluder devices for shrimp nets after a federal rule that would have required the devices in skimmer trawls was withdrawn last year. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

If you’re a huge fan of algebra, probability and math then you’ve come across the term “dependant events.” Fascinating stuff. No? James Bond knows about this stuff because he is a good poker player. Really! Get on the internet and look it up. Cool stuff. So what does math have to do with Frankie? Frankie […]

By Herp News Tortoise Pipeline & Energy Fund, Inc. today announced that as of Feb. 28, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $361.5 million and its unaud 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 Feb. 28, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $230.6 million and 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 Feb. 28, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $401.9 million and its unaudit 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 Feb. 28, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $1.8 billion and its unaudited net asset value Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links