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The green anole lizard is master of a well-known trick: it can disconnect its tail in a jam and grow a new one. It's not only impressive, but enviable: regrowing broken or missing body parts has long been the dream of regenerative medicine. Now scientists have unlocked the secret to the lizard’s regenerative abilities, and it lies, in large part, within genes that humans share with the reptiles …
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A GENETIC program that triggers new tissue growth when a lizard loses its tail could hold the key to muscle and nerve regeneration in humans, a study says.
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Selective logging in India’s Western Ghats forests continues to affect frogs decades after harvesting ended, finds a new study published in Biotropica. The research assessed frog communities in logged and unlogged forests in Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve and found that unlogged forests had twice the density of frogs as areas logged in the 1970s.
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A loggerhead turtle from the Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Hospital got to head home Wednesday.
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M-M Properties seeks tenants for the high-rise to be built at Turtle Creek and Cedar Springs, across from the Perot Group’s new headquarters.
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Sometimes all it takes is fewer clicks. Scientists have discovered a new species of frog from Madagascar that stuck out because it “clicked” less during calls than similar species. Unfortunately the scientists believe the new species—dubbed the Ankarafa skeleton frog—is regulated to a single patch of forest, which, despite protected status, remains hugely threatened.
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By understanding the secret of how lizards regenerate their tails, researchers may be able to develop ways to stimulate the regeneration of limbs in humans. Now, a team of researchers is one step closer to solving that mystery. The scientists have discovered the genetic “recipe” for lizard tail regeneration, which may come down to using genetic ingredients in just the right mixture and amounts.
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Scientists from Arizona State University used gene sequencing technology to study the process in the green anole lizard, Anolis carolinensis.
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Understanding how lizards shed and regrow their tails could lead to muscle and nerve regeneration in humans, say scientists.
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Snakes, turtles, and lizards will be among partygoers at North Plains Public Library's end-of-summer reading party, as the Reptile Man leads the library's weekly Wacky Wednesday event at Jessie Mays Community Hall. Other events today include the Portland Open and free vision screening at Hillsboro Main Library.
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A woman saved her great-grandson’s pet bearded dragon by performing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
From the Daily Mail:
‘I really couldn’t remember how many chest compressions should be given before a rescue breath, but he was blue so I just did it. I was really amazed it worked.’
Working for what she said felt like a half hour, she held the motionless Del and rubbed his belly, then hung him upside down to clear water from his mouth and breathed air past his teeth.
Before long, he opened his eyes and started to move.
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Here’s a challenge: take a conservationist out for a drink and ask them about their work. Nine times out of ten—or possibly more—you’ll walk away feeling frustrated, despondent, and utterly hopeless. Yet a few conservation scientist are not just trying to save species from extinction, but also working to save their field—their life’s work—from slipping into total despair.
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Around 100,000 elephants were killed by poachers for their ivory on the African continent in just three years, according to a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Between 2010 and 2012 an average of 6.8 percent of the elephant population was killed annually, equaling just over 20 percent of the continent’s population in that time.
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Check out what Slash says for Turtle Conservancy.
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August 19 is World Orangutan Day, a designation intended to raise awareness about the great red ape, which is threatened by habitat loss, the pet trade, and hunting. Once distributed across much of southeast Asia, today orangutans are only found on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra. Both species of orangutan — the Sumatran and the Bornean — are considered endangered.
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Amazon river turtles communicate with their hatchlings and with one another using vocalizations, recordings reveal.
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Building photo via Architectural Digest, turtle photo via Change.org Aspen's brand new $45 million art museum may have the Pritzker Prize winning architect Shigeru Ban on its side, but that doesn't mean it's immune from criticism. And while originally…
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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