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In a recent update of the IUCN Red List, scientists have identified 13 new bird species that have gone extinct since 1500. In total the list now finds that at least 140 bird species gone extinct in the past five hundred years, representing 1.3 percent of the world’s total known birds.
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The Coast Guard is known for saving endangered sailors, but one crew can say they saved an endangered turtle.
From MYFOXNY:
The United States Coast Guard has released video showing a crew saving a huge sea turtle from a dangerous, tangled situation off the New Jersey coast.
The video shows Coast Guard members from Station Cape May, New Jersey, and an official from the Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Brigatine untangling the leatherback turtle from fishing gear on Saturday, August 9, 2014. The Coast Guard estimates the turtle weighed about 800 pounds.
As soon as the turtle was free of the gear, it swam away, appearing unharmed.
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Mike Daley hits the beach on Canaveral National Seashore before dawn most mornings, climbing into an all-terrain vehicle to survey 12 miles of beach, looking for unique trails in the sand that tell him a sea turtle plodded ashore to lay her eggs. Daley is among a small group of paid employees and volunteers who monitor beaches along the coast of Volusia and Flagler …
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Ashland, Ore. — A lizard heat lamp is being blamed for starting a small fire inside of an Ashland home. Ashland Fire and Rescue responded to a report of a fire on the 300 block of Idaho street around 7 Sunday morning. Firefighters say the heat lamp was sitting on the wood floor of the home, and started burning downwards into the ground. The fire did an estimated $5,000-$10,000 worth of damage …
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Google Earth has spurred the discovery of another new species. In this case, the creature is a pygmy chameleon, one of four previously unknown Rhampholeon chameleon species described from the remote ‘sky islands’ in Mozambique. The Mount Mabu pygmy chameleon was discovered after Google Earth images of a tract of forest led Julian Bayliss to launch a scientific expedition to the region.
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Wildlife officials plan tortoise sterilization campaign to curb breeding of backyard pets
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The federal government is taking the unusual step of beginning to sterilize an endangered species it is trying to save.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — The federal government is taking the unusual step of beginning to sterilize an endangered species it is trying to save.
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2K and Turtle Rock Studios announced today that Evolve, the highly anticipated 4v1 cooperative and competitive multiplayer shooter coming to next-gen consoles and PC on February 10
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Meet the Caiuajara dobruskii: one of the craziest extinct flying lizards you'll ever see.
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Check out this video “Squirrel VS Snake,” submitted by kingsnake.com user PH FasDog.
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Turtles are well known for their longevity and protective shells, but it turns out these reptiles use sound to stick together and care for young.
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Meet the Caiuajara dobruskii: one of the craziest extinct flying lizards you'll ever see.
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An ancient flying reptile with a bizarre, butterflylike head has been unearthed in Brazil.
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No matter how much you like snakes, finding 48 roaming loose in your home can be quite the shock.
From the New York Daily News:
The snakes are small, but they are aggressive, the couple said. They are especially worried for their toddler son, Bentley.
“Our two-year-old is terrified of them,” Hisler said. “We’ve only found one or two in his bedroom so far. Thank God.”
So far, Scott and Hisler have caught 48 snakes – a number that increases daily, even though pest control has surveyed the home three times.
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By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A flying reptile whose head was topped with a big bony crest shaped like the sail of a yacht swooped through the skies over Brazil roughly 90 million years ago. Scientists announced on Wednesday the remarkable discovery of about 50 fossilized skeletons of a creature called Caiuajara dobruskii, a type of flying reptile known as a pterosaur that lived …
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An ancient flying reptile with a bizarre, butterflylike head has been unearthed in Brazil. Hundreds of fossils from the reptile were unearthed in a single bone bed, providing the strongest evidence yet that the flying reptiles were social animals, said study co-author Alexander Kellner, a paleontologist at the Museu Nacional/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Though pterosaur …
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A huge boneyard of 47 pterosaur fossils has revealed a new species and unprecedented insight into the lifestyles of the ancient flying beasts.
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Tangled in fishing gear off the coast of N.J., the turtle was struggling until the Coast Guard came to the rescue
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Frances Burns ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., Aug. 13 (UPI) — An 800-pound leatherback sea turtle, stuck in fishing gear 30 miles off the coast of New Jersey, got a helping hand from the U.S. Coast Guard.
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If someone told you there was a place where 200 million year old coral reefs had erupted from beneath the sea and were now draped in the oldest rain forest in the world, a place where marbled cats and clouded leopards prowl the sharp crags and their dark caves in search of dead bats and small prey, would you believe them?
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With among the world’s largest tails compared to body-size, the tufted ground squirrel just might be the most exotic squirrel species on the planet. Found only on the island of Borneo, this threatened species is also surrounded by wild tales, including the tenacity to take down a deer for dinner. New research explores the squirrel’s monster tail and whether other tales about it may be true.
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Experts in India think a multi-state antivenom pool is needed to stem the tide of deaths caused by snakebites.
From the Times of India:
The number of deaths caused by snakebites in the country has reached nearly epidemic proportions therefore there is a need for setting up a multi-state cooperative for extracting snake venom, said renowned herpetologist Romulus Whitaker.
Whitaker, who was instrumental in setting up the Irula Snake-Catchers Industrial Cooperative Society (ISCICS) in Tamil Nadu, pointed out the drawbacks in the present system of venom collection.
“There is a lot of variation in venom. The same snake, the Russell’s viper is found in four corners of India, but its venom composition varies according to where it is found. But the anti-venom produced from a Russell’s viper in Tamil Nadu may not be good enough for a person bitten by a Russell’s viper in West Bengal or Punjab,” Whitaker told TOI.
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A recent survey of mountain yellow-legged frogs released into the wild by San Diego Zoo Global wildlife conservationists indicates that the populations are showing signs of stress related to drought conditions in California. The juvenile frogs, released into the San Jacinto mountains in two protected sites, are representatives of a species brought to the brink of extinction by the threat of wildfire, habitat destruction and chytrid fungus.
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THE founder of a reptile rescue charity has urged people to be certain of their commitment before adopting an exotic animal as a pet.
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BLACK mambas, king cobras and even a celebrity alligator will be slithering their way to Wraxall this week. Reptile Fortnight has returned to Noah's Ark Zoo Farm, with daily shows and snakes on display in a specially constructed bullet proof Perspex cube in the complex's Ark Arena auditorium. The educational shows, by Bristol business the Reptile Zone, feature the world's most venomous snake …
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Rescuers free large leatherback turtle that got entangled in fishing gear off Jersey Shore
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Three doctoral students did a cross-country road trip survey of roadside ecology, and now report on a rare plant that thrives in the aftermath of wildfires, pine snakes and the impact of roads on their habitat and newborn pine snakes’ map-making ability.
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Shark fin demand has dropped precipitously in China in just a few years, according to a new report by WildAid. Shark fin traders in Guangzhou—the current informal capital of the shark fin trade—say their sales have fallen by 82 percent in just two years, according to WildAid.
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Marking World Elephant Day, a designation intended to raise awareness about the plight of elephants that are being widely poached for the ivory trade, primatologist Jane Goodall urged people to have greater compassion for Earth’s largest land animals.
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Advocates hope the the discovery of world’s 10,000th reptile species leads to greater protections for endangered herps.
From Mongabay News:
The new milestone is important because it means reptiles are as diverse as birds, which are generally considered to include around 10,000 species. Uetz predicts that reptiles will soon surpass birds given the rate of recent discoveries, making it the second-largest vertebrate group after fish which contains over 32,000 species.
Globally, there are around 5,500 mammal species and 6,400 amphibians currently.
But despite being among the most diverse vertebrate groups, reptiles are largely unrepresented by the IUCN Red List, which determines whether or not a species is endangered. Approximately all mammals and birds have been evaluated by the IUCN, and over 90 percent of amphibians have been evaluated. In contrast, only 43 percent of reptiles have been evaluated (the number is even worse for fish sitting at 35 percent).
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SAN DIEGO, Aug. 11, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Turtle Beach Corporation (NASDAQ: HEAR) today announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2014. Highlights & Developments Second quarter net …
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It's like Robert DeNiro said in Goodfellas: “Never rat on your lizard friends, and always keep your mouth shut or your lizard friend will straight up murder you — lizards are f*cking…
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For thousands of years turtles have been used in Chinese traditional medicine to treat a wide variety of ailments and diseases. Originally published in the journal Radiata and recently republished HerpDigest David S. Lee and Liao Shi Kun write, “[In Chinese culture] turtles are symbolic of long life, personal wealth, fertility, strength, and happy households.”
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Tortoise Capital Advisors will visit the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday and ring the NYSE Closing Bell to celebrate a decade of listing master limited partnership-focused funds on the NYSE, and more specifically the 10th anniversary of Tortoise Energy Infrastructure Corp.
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Tortoise Capital Advisors will visit the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday and ring the NYSE Closing Bell to celebrate a decade of listing master limited partnership-focused funds on the NYSE, and more specifically the 10th anniversary of Tortoise Energy Infrastructure Corp.
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Officials are reminding people, to be mindful of the nests and the hatchlings while they are spending time on the beach.
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A generation ago, Borneo was one of the wildest places on the planet. But decades of logging and oil palm plantations has changed the landscape of Borneo forever: in fact a recent study found that the island has lost 30 percent of its total forest cover since 1973. In the face of this large-scale environmental destruction, a new study finds that Indonesian Borneo’s children have a pessimistic view of their future.
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It’s not Godzilla threatening the Japanese ecosystem, but invasive snapping turtles.
From BBC News:
Snapping turtles originally come from the Americas, but turned up in Japan as pets in the 1960s, Kyodo news agency reports. Some turtles must have escaped to the wild, as there were an estimated 1,000 turtles roaming the Chiba Prefecture 10 years ago. The turtles have been classed in Japan as an invasive species and are eating up fish, bird and weed stocks, and chewing their way through fishermen’s nets.
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THE founder of a reptile rescue charity has urged people to be certain of their commitment before adopting an exotic animal as a pet.
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