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Not only have several members of the Lizard Squad hacking group been arrested lately, but their Lizard Stresser client list has leaked all over the web. The post Lizard Squad chased by police, humbled by fellow hackers appeared first on Digital Trends .
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A two-year comprehensive turtle survey, the first of its kind in Oregon's Clackamas County, has failed to document any trace of the imperiled western pond turtle during its first year of searching, according to a recent report.
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Spring Special Also Includes Choice of Added Bonus Offer Worth Up to $1,000 (PRWeb January 19, 2015) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/01/prweb12448468.htm
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New research details how a preserved fossil found in China could be the oldest record of post-natal parental care from the Middle Jurassic. The specimen, found by a farmer in China, is of an apparent family group with an adult, surrounded by six juveniles of the same species. Given that the smaller individuals are of similar sizes, the group interpreted this as indicating an adult with its offspring, apparently from the same clutch.
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Could a universal anti-venom be just around the corner?
From Tech Times:
Scientists from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) are working toward the development of a universal anti-venom that can be used for the bite of all of the snakes in sub-Saharan Africa with the aid of a new technique dubbed antivenomics.
The technique can help improve the potency of extracting snake venom and thus the potency of the antidote. Scientists hope that this breakthrough could help save thousands of lives per year.
In sub-Saharan Africa, snake bites cause the death of 32,000 people per year. Some of those who manage to survive likewise suffer from serious effects with snake bites permanently disabling 96,000 people in the region annually.
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Flying Lizard is making a long-awaited return to running Porsche 911s, only it's not where you'd expect. In addition to announcing a third customer McLaren 650S to run in Pirelli World Challenge today, Flying Lizard said that they will field a two-car customer effort in the Pirelli Porsche GT3 Cup. Read more…
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A counter-hack against the Lizard Squad hacking group's distributed denial of service (DDoS) tool LizardStresser has resulted in a customer data theft. Details of 14,241 users' user names, passwords, and other data, store in plain text, has been stolen from the group and posted online….
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By Herp News
A counter-hack against the Lizard Squad hacking group's distributed denial of service (DDoS) tool LizardStresser has resulted in a customer data theft. Details of 14,241 users' user names, passwords, and other data, store in plain text, has been stolen from the group and posted online….
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An adult female Gulf Coast spiny softshell turtle, Trionyx spiniferus asper, can be a rather large, somewhat difficult turtle to handle. Their long neck, strong jaws and willingness to defend themselves when cornered can leave a lasting impression.
We encountered such a female while walking around at a local fish hatchery one afternoon. She was trapped in a pond drain about nine feet below us with no way of escape.
The question was, how were we going to get her out?
The pond drain itself is there to keep the pond at a certain depth, and although it’s smooth concrete on three sides, one wall is made out of boards that can be put in place or removed to either stop or allow water flow and change the depth of the pond.
It actually didn’t take my boyfriend long to get to the bottom of the drain. He practically jumped in, and within another second or two he was back out again with the large softshell turtle in tow. I’m still not quite sure how he did it, but for this particular turtle the day had been saved.
Once we had her hauled out and took a good look, there was evidence that she had been trapped there for at least a little while, so after one or two pictures we released her into a nearby sand-bottomed creek where she would be more at home and less likely to be trapped again. …read more
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By Herp News
It's a sea turtle mystery that has stumped scientists for decades: How does the female sea turtle, which travels across thousands of miles of open ocean each year, still manage to navigate back to the same beach where she hatched to lay her eggs?
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In the last 500 years, the oceans have suffered far fewer extinctions than on land—at least that we know of. According to a recent study in Science, 15 animals are known to have vanished forever from the oceans while terrestrial ecosystems have seen 514 extinctions. The researchers, however, warn that the number of marine extinctions could rise rapidly as the oceans are industrialized.
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This is obvious, but still important: humans are not a marine species. Even as we have colonized most of our planet’s terrestrial landscapes, we have not yet colonized the oceans. And for most of our history, we have impacted them only on the periphery. A new review in Science finds that this has saved marine species and ecosystems from large-scale damage—that is, until the last couple centuries.
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Adult sea turtles find their way back to the beaches where they hatched by seeking out unique magnetic signatures along the coast, according to new evidence.
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It's a sea turtle mystery that has stumped scientists for decades: How does the female sea turtle, which travels across thousands of miles of open ocean each year, still manage to navigate back to the same beach where she hatched to lay her eggs?
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Think all frogs lay eggs? Think again.
From ScienceBlogs:
A new species of frog (Limnonectes larvaepartus) has been discovered in the rain forest of Sulawesi island in Indonesia. This species challenges the grade-school wisdom that taught us: ‘frogs lay eggs’. It looks like textbooks will need to be revised as this is the only known exception to that rule. Study author Dr. Jimmy McGuire (University of California, Berkeley) said the following as quoted in Reuters, “Reproduction in most frogs could not be more different from human reproduction. In this case, what is most interesting, ironically, is that the reproductive mode is more similar to our own.”
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About a half a mile from our house there is a small drainage culvert that channels water from a small neighborhood lake and wetland, beneath a busy highway, and into the Paynes Prairie basin. Various herps at various times utilize this culvert to assuage their various needs. Patti and I occasionally visit the canal just to see what creatures happen to be present at different times.
Sometimes we’re surprised, sometimes we’re not. When the water is flowing strongly it may attain a depth of about a foot. More normally it is 8 inches or less deep. Sometimes the culvert is totally dry and during droughts it may remain dry for weeks or even months on end.
But when times are good and the water is gurgling through this tiny culvert, I am provided with as good a chance at seeing a greater siren, Siren lacertina, or a two-toed amphiuma, Amphiuma means, as any other locale I know. One night when Mike and I stopped by we were happy to see hundreds of bluefin killifish. A Florida banded water snake or two is not an unusual find.
Patti made what was probably the most unexpected and most memorable find . We were passing the culvert one night and decided to check it out. Patti, being much more nimble than I, clambered down the slope to the culvert to see what wonders of nature awaited her scrutiny. Headlight gleaming, she peered into the culvert, made an immediate exclamation and scurried back up the slope.
“What’s the hurry?” I asked. “
“Look over the edge,” Patti said.
I did and leaning as far forward as I dared I could barely see the tip of a rounded black object.
She had come nose to nose with a 10 foot alligator, Alligator mississippiensis, that was sheltering quietly in the culvert.
We both decided that we had enough of herping for the evening.
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By Herp News
The tortoise that was discovered by Jonathan Hanks on his Oahu driveway on New Year's Day was scheduled to be picked up by the State Department of Agriculture Wednesday afternoon. Rep. John Mizuno's office received several calls from people claiming to be the owner of the tortoise. The state will be calling them back and referring them to the Department of Agriculture. The primary concern of …
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A well-traveled tortoise is back where he belongs. Rarely does a tortoise become a top story, but a reptile has been been getting all sorts of attention after getting lost. Now, this tortoise story comes with a happy ending. The phone had been ringing off the hook at State Representative John Mizuno's office. Dozens of people wanted to talk about a large tortoise found on Oahu's Windward side …
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The story of a tortoise found roaming a Kaneohe neighborhood has come to a happy close, its ending not too far from where it all began.
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The tortoise that was discovered by Jonathan Hanks on his driveway on New Year's Day was scheduled to be picked up by the State Department of Agriculture Wednesday afternoon.
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By Herp News
New research by a team of biologists has revealed that creating antivenom is a bit tricky. That’s because the type of venom a snake produces can change according to where it lives.
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The Ebola outbreak in West Africa may have been the result of complex economic and agricultural policies developed by authorities in Guinea and Liberia, according to a new commentary in Environment and Planning A. Looking at the economic activities around villages where Ebola first emerged, the investigators analyzed a shift in land-use activities in Guinea’s forested region, particularly an increase in oil palm.
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London (AFP) – A giant prehistoric reptile that patrolled the waters off Scotland 170 million years ago has been identified by scientists, they said Monday.
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Smugglers attempted to pass almost 200 baby radiated tortoises through Paris.
From PressTV:
The rare reptile species are known as “radiated tortoises” and found only in Madagascar, customs officials said. The one-of-a-kind pattern on their shell case makes them precious for collectors.
The baby reptiles, 15 of which had died, were discovered in a crate carrying sea cucumbers on December 14. The officials added that “particularly unsuitable conditions of transport,” was the cause of their death.
Those that have survived have been transported to Tortoise Village in France’s southeastern Var region.
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Recently, Internet mayhem group Lizard Squad made news by ruining Christmas Day for Xbox Live and PlayStation Network users. Afterwards the group unveiled a distributed denial of service (DDoS) tool offered to the public that allows people to use the … Continue reading →
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PUNTA GORDA, Fla., Jan. 13, 2015 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — The Turtle Club Coastal Tavern and Claw Bar holds its official Grand Opening Thursday, January 15, and the “Join us!” invitation is going out on social media, in e-mail alerts, and via general advertising, announced the historic restaurant in Punta Gorda. “We have been experiencing a fantastic 'soft launch' throughout the fall and winter …
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The Lower Keys can now join the Everglades as home to breeding populations of both American alligators and crocodiles.
From Keys News:
If she and Cherkiss are correct, then the Lower Keys have joined the Everglades as home to breeding populations of alligators and crocodiles.
Unlike the Upper and Middle Keys, the Lower Keys have long been home to a small community of alligators. The famed Everglades denizen is one of the main draws at Blue Hole, an old railroad quarry in the Key Deer refuge that has evolved into a rainfall-fueled freshwater lake. Alligators also make homes on other parts of Big Pine, as well as surrounding Lower Keys islands, where the limestone bedrock is of a less porous variety than the keystone bedrock of the northern island chain. As a result, those islands retain enough freshwater during the dry season to provide acceptable, if not especially good, habitat for freshwater-dependent alligators.
Lower Keys promoters now can decide whether to follow the path of Everglades backers by promoting the fact the area harbors both alligators and crocodiles. After all, the area already focuses much of its marketing resources around its attributes as an ecotourist destination.
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For swimming through sand, a slick and slender snake can perform better than a short and stubby lizard. That’s one conclusion from a study of the movement patterns of the shovel-nosed snake, a native of the Mojave Desert of the Southwest United States.
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SAN DIEGO, Jan. 12, 2015 /PRNewswire/ – Turtle Beach Corporation (HEAR) today announced that, in spite of challenging overall market conditions, it expects net sales for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2014 to be within its previously issued guidance range of $185 to $195 million, albeit at the low end of this range. “While industry conditions proved to be more challenging in 2014 than we …
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Can alternative income programs save Fiji’s reef fish? Many implicate the failure of Fiji’s government to prioritize sustainable management over fisheries development projects, or suggest that Fijians’ mindsets must dramatically shift first.
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Meet Blade, the little disabled tortoise who gets to keep on moving thanks to his custom-made Lego wheelchair.
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Ben Hooper NEW BRIGHTON, Minn., Jan. 12 (UPI) — A trio of Minnesota brothers famed for their snow sculptures of sea creatures have unveiled their latest front yard creation, a 12-foot-tall sea turtle.
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A new study casts doubt on findings from 2013 that hairs from a purported Yeti belonged to an unknown bear species or polar and brown bear hybrid. Instead, two researchers—who took a fresh look at the DNA in question—say the hairs are simply that of a Himalayan brown bear.
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Malta’s Constitutional Court has upheld a public referendum to decide the fate of the country’s controversial spring bird hunt, which kills over ten thousand migrating birds every year. The Constitutional Court threw out objections by Malta’s powerful hunting lobby, and instead sided with the 11 conservation groups who organized the referendum, known as the Coalition for the Abolition of Spring Hunting—gathering 40,000 signatures from Maltese voters.
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