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If you’ve never heard of the earless monitor lizard, you’re not alone: this cryptic lizard has long-escaped the attention of the larger public. But over the past couple years its bizarre appearance has been splashed across social media sites for reptile collectors. While this decidedly-quirky attention may seem benign, it could actually threaten the species’ existence.
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On your mark…get set…CRAWL!Area turtle owners, it's time to get your pet turtle into racing shape and prepare for the return of turtle racing to the Greater Andover Days!
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The Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa is preparing to start construction on a multimillion-dollar heritage center.
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Protected areas are working. That’s the conclusion of a new analysis of over 80 different studies on the efficacy of parks and nature reserves in safeguarding wildlife. Published in the open access journal, PLOS ONE, the new study finds that in general protected areas house higher abundances of wildlife as well as greater biodiversity than adjacent areas.
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John Hopton for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Fossils discovered in China are providing clues to a species of flying reptile that may have had a jaw pouch for catching and storing food. The pterosaurs lived around 120 million years ago and scientists working on the project noted that as well as being similar to pelicans, they resembled the fictional winged creature Ikran from the movie …
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A rare two-headed snake was found by a Turkish farmer.
From BBC News:
The young snake appears to belong to the Coluber genus of thin-bodied, fast-moving snakes commonly known as racers. Cuneyt Alpguven, who works at Antalya Aquarium’s reptile house, says two-headed snakes are very rare and have little chance of surviving in the wild. “Being two-headed is a major disadvantage, because its anatomical structure makes it more vulnerable to attacks while it also draws the attention of predators.”
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MIRI: All key sea turtle sites should have a volunteer tourism programme to protect its dwindling population.
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A snake found under a car outside a school in Pescadero has been taken in by a reptile rescue organization that will try to find it a long-term home, according to the Peninsula Humane Society.
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A sprawling ancient flying reptile looked so much like a dragon that could have flown alongside the aerial predators called “ikran” in the film “Avatar” that its discoverers named the newfound beast after these mountain banshees.
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By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – (This story has been refiled to fix a typo in the last letter of the genus name, Ikrandraco instead of Ikrandraci) Some of the most visually stunning sequences from director James Cameron's blockbuster movie “Avatar” involved graceful flying creatures that were ridden by blue human-like beings facing ecological destruction on a moon called Pandora. It turns …
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Gopher tortoise facts ♦ Gopher tortoise burrows average 7 feet deep and 15 feet long but may be more than 40 feet long. ♦ A tortoise may have multiple burrows within the area it spends most of its time.
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A boat of salmon fishermen unexpectedly snagged a rare green sea turtle while fishing for salmon outside the Golden Gate Bridge. The San Francisco Chronicle reported Saturday that the turtle is usually found off the shores of Mexico and the Galapagos island. A fisherman aboard the Sausalito, California-based Lusty Lady snagged the 150 pound turtle on Sept. 6. After determining the turtle was …
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A boat of salmon fishermen unexpectedly snagged a rare green sea turtle while fishing for salmon outside the Golden Gate Bridge.
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Here’s a national issue in which Montana has raced out in front of the pack: turtles.
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By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Some of the most visually stunning sequences from director James Cameron's blockbuster movie “Avatar” involved graceful flying creatures that were ridden by blue human-like beings facing ecological destruction on a moon called Pandora. Scientists on Thursday announced the discovery of fossils in China of a new species of flying reptile called a pterosaur …
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A snake found under a car outside a school in Pescadero has been taken in by a reptile rescue organization that will try to find it a long-term home, according to the Peninsula Humane Society.
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A boom in infrastructure and population has forced India’s wildlife to eke out a creative existence in an increasingly human-modified environment. Big cats such as the leopard are often spotted within large cities, on railway tracks, and sadly, on India’s burgeoning and sprawling road network.
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The illegal trade in live chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos and orangutans showed no signs of weakening in the first half of 2014—and may actually be getting worse—since the Great Apes Survival Partnership (GRASP) published the first-ever report to gauge the global black market trade in great apes in 2013.
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A pterosaur may have skimmed lakes looking for prey, collecting them in a throat pouch like a pelican's, scientists suggest.
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A sprawling ancient flying reptile looked so much like a dragon that could have flown alongside the aerial predators called “ikran” in the film “Avatar” that its discoverers named the newfound beast after these mountain banshees.
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Authorities are searching for someone who shot and killed a desert tortoise being tracked by the Arizona Game and Fish Department.
From AZ Central:
She was the second tortoise in a Game and Fish study to have a transmitter affixed to her, which had been providing researchers information about the reclusive reptile’s movements since 2010. Fourteen other juvenile tortoises in the program have transmitters.
Anyone with information about this killing can call the department’s Operation Game Thief hotline toll-free at (800) 352-0700 or visit www.azgfd.gov/thief and refer to case #14-002388. Callers may be eligible for a reward of up to $1,000.
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After 20 months, Zambia has lifted its ban on hunting, allowing trophy hunters to target numerous species in the wildlife-rich country including elephants. The announcement was made by the country’s Tourism and Art’s Minister, Jean Kapata, who stated that the ban had resulted in a loss of revenue to the Zambia Wild Life Authority (ZAWA).
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A snake found under a car outside a school in Pescadero has been taken in by a reptile rescue organization that will try to find it a long-term home, according to the Peninsula Humane Society.
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The first loggerhead turtle handed in this season was recovering at the Dolphin Discovery Centre yesterday after being found on a Bunbury beach.
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The first loggerhead turtle handed in this season was recovering at the Dolphin Discovery Centre yesterday after being found on a Bunbury beach.
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An unusual and little-known monitor lizard from Borneo that has captured the interest of reptile collectors is emerging as the latest victim of the global illicit wildlife trade, an investigative report by TRAFFIC warns.
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Why risk your own health by milking snakes? So others can benefit.
From The Mirror:
The pair run the Kentucky Reptile Zoo full-time, a non-profit relying solely on people coming through the gates and the sale of venom.
Kristen added: “Almost any venomous snake is capable of causing severe injury but you are pretty unlikely to die if you get appropriate medical care.
“It’s unlikely here as we do everything we can to get appropriate care and have anti-venom on site for everything anti-venom is made for.
“We both believe what we’re doing is a good thing – it saves lives.
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Fitch Ratings assigns 'AAA' ratings to the following notes issued by two closed-end funds managed by Tortoise Capital Advisors, LLC.:
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SAN DIEGO, Sept. 9, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Turtle Beach Corporation (NASDAQ: HEAR) today announced that the company will be presenting at the Wedbush Securities California Dreamin' Consumer Management Access …
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A video of men trying to yank a monitor lizard from one man's car engine has gone viral. The driver, Thum Wai Loong, shared with Channel NewsAsia, his close encounter with the scaly kind.
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Rokkam Kiran Kumar spent ten years rescuing snakes in residential India, and now he wants to take it a step further by educating others in snake safety.
From The Hindu:
Acknowledging his decade-long efforts, he was recently given official permission to rescue snakes by the Chief Wildlife Warden with the support of the Conservator of Forest.
“On an average, I rescue five to six snakes in a day. But some days, I get more than 30 calls and it is difficult for me attend to all of them,” said Kiran. In order to address this issue, Kiran has recently registered his society called ‘Snakes Saver Society’ and formed a team with 16 other members, whom he has trained to catch and rescue snakes. “We now want to reach out to city schools and colleges and conduct awareness workshops on snakes and how to be safe,” he said. “There are about 250 species of snakes found in the region, but only a handful of them are venomous,” he said.
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As of late August, Norway has killed 729 northern minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) during its annual whaling season, the highest number taken since 1993.
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Hundreds of surrendered Sonoran Desert tortoises are in need of new homes, and turning in wild tortoises compounds the problem.
From AZ Central:
“It’s a heartbreaking thing when you see them come here, tears in their eyes, and you try to comfort them,” said Daniel Marchand, curator at the Phoenix Herpetological Society, a private sanctuary which takes in surrendered reptiles.
But PHS can no longer take in tortoises due to the scope of the current problem.
Releasing them in the wild is not the answer, because one tame tortoise with a virus can kill an entire neighborhood of wild Sonoran Desert tortoises.
Then there’s the issue with people finding tortoises in the wild and turning them in to Game and Fish.
“We don’t want people turning in baby tortoises,” said Burnett. “They’re probably wild tortoises, so we want them to leave them in the wild. Obviously, if they’re in the middle of the road, move them to the side of the road, but please don’t turn in baby tortoises. Let them be in the wild so they don’t have to be in captivity.”
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It looks like the offspring of a female Testudo and Raphael, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.
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The remains of “Lonesome George,” the last of a subspecies of Galapagos Islands tortoise, will go on display at the Museum of Natural History in New York this month, Ecuador said Thursday. The giant tortoise, who was thought to be over 100 years old when he died in June 2012, has undergone taxidermy and will return to Ecuador early next year. He will go on display at the Museum of Natural …
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By Anna Patrick Staff writer If Laura Page takes one of her beloved pets on a public outing, she's normally met with reactions of fear or disapproval. But when Page strode into the Charleston Area Reptile Expo with Songo, her four-foot long ball python, lazily wrapped around her neck, she felt right at home. “They make really great pets,” Page said. “They are so affectionate.” She and her …
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The population of blue whales in the Eastern Pacific has recovered to 97 percent of historic levels decades after Earth’s largest animal was nearly driven to extinction in some places due to the whaling industry, reports a new study published in the journal, Marine Mammal Science.
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MANCHESTER — The police radio dispatch early Friday afternoon concerned a snake loose in the bottle return room at Stop & Shop.
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