It’s not Godzilla threatening the Japanese ecosystem, but invasive snapping turtles.

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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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Two look-alike frogs were shown by researchers to be separate species through genetic analysis. Recently, a Malaysian herpetologist puzzled over an unfamiliar orange-striped, yellow-speckled frog she’d live-caught in swampland on the Malay Peninsula. She showed the frog to a fellow herpetologist pursuing his doctorate in the United States. They wondered — was this striking frog with an appearance unlike others nearby in the central peninsula an unidentified species?

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Ninja Turtles fans old and young showed up at the movies this weekend, driving Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to one of the biggest August openings ever.Meanwhile, Guardians of the Galaxy scored the highest second weekend of the Summer so far.The Top 12 earned an estimated $173.6 million this weekend, which is up 22 percent from the same frame last year. This August remains on track to be the …

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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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Sherrie Dolezal, 62, returned to her home in Salem, Oregon, on Tuesday to find her beloved pet Del Sol, a bearded dragon, floating face up and unconscious in his pool.

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News-Journal/NIGEL COOK Mike Daley digs for sea turtle eggs along Canaveral National Seashore in search of new turtle nests, Tuesday, July 22, 2014. Published: Sunday, August 10, 2014 at 5:30 a.m.

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News-Journal/NIGEL COOK Mike Daley digs for sea turtle eggs along Canaveral National Seashore in search of new turtle nests, Tuesday, July 22, 2014. Published: Saturday, August 9, 2014 at 10:02 p.m.

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The closed-end funds managed by Tortoise Capital Advisors declared the following distributions today:

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The three-foot reptile – thought to be a chocolate banana king snake – was slithering across the machine outside the One Stop shop in Gillingham, Dorset.

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As Michael Bay’s new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles adaptation gets set to hit theaters – only seven years after the last such film – audiences are left gawking at the rather monstrous new forms for the team. Her name was Venus de Milo.

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A 150-pound tortoise got its 15 minutes of fame over the weekend.

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A search is underway Monday for the owner of a 60-pound African tortoise found wandering the streets of Santee on Sunday.

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No club pushes global mashups more than the Lizard Lounge . Moroccan folk, UK breakbeats, jazz fusion, Middle Eastern melodies and rock ‘n’ roll all have a home at the Lizard (OK, fine, they all have a home in one Lizard residency: Friday’s with Club d’Elf ).

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Leonardo, Michelangelo, Rapheal or Donatello: Which turtle is the biggest hottie in a half shell? 

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The only way to save the long-suffering elephants of Africa is to close every ivory market on the planet and destroy all ivory stockpiles, according to a bold new essay in Conservation Biology. Written by Elizabeth Bennett, the Vice President for Species Conservation at the Wildlife Conservation Society, the paper is likely to prove controversial.

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After crashing her car into a firehouse, a woman was found wearing an unusual accessory: a ball python.

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Fire personnel at the scene rushed to aid Espinosa when they “discovered a small ball python snake wrapped around the defendant’s neck,” which they promptly removed and secured, according to the police report.

“Third Precinct officers responded and determined Espinosa had stolen the snake from [a Garden City] PETCO,” according to the report, which also stated that Espinosa was in possession of marijuana at the time of the accident. The snake is sold at Petco for $89, a store employee said.

Espinosa was treated and released from a hospital, and the snake was returned to its home at the store, police said.

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Juvenile loggerhead turtles swim into oncoming ocean currents, instead of passively drifting with them. After loggerhead turtle hatchlings leave nesting beaches, they live in the ocean for 7-12 years before migrating to coastal habitats.

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Tortoises have learned how to use touchscreens as part of a study which aimed to teach the animals navigational techniques. The brain structure of reptiles is very different to that of mammals, which use the hippocampus for spatial navigation.

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Bumphead parrotfish are noisy feeders. They break off large branches of corals using their powerful beaks, grind them up in their bodies to extract nutrients, and expel the undigested material in large cloudy plumes of feces. Their voracious feeding is, however, not just a loud, messy affair. During the course of their feeding, they also change the coral reef ecosystem in numerous ways.

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A California tortoise had a brush with law enforcement after police picked him up near a city intersection.

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The roaming reptile, named Clark, was reunited with its human family on Sunday after it was spotted near the intersection of Sixth Street and Norwood Place, in the southeastern part of the city, at around 1 p.m. Saturday and retrieved by police.

Someone cornered Clark until officers arrived, Alhambra Police Department Sgt. Esther Rodriguez told ABC News in a Sunday interview.

“Since he was kind of heavy, two officers picked him up, put him in our trunk and transported him to our station,” where he was placed in a kennel until Los Angeles County Animal Care and Control arrived shortly afterward, Rodriguez said.

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A giant tortoise has been returned to its owners after a brief police pursuit through suburban LA. It took two officers to heft the giant tortoise into a patrol car so they could turn it over to animal control authorities.

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MACKAY and District Turtle Watch Association is one of 69 finalists in the running for the People’s Choice Awards as part of the 2014 National Landcare Awards.

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David Yow is not the first guy you’d expect to be emotionally invested in cats. As a live performer, the former Jesus Lizard antagonist has a well-founded reputation for crassly unsettling onstage antics, including wrapping his genitals around microphones (a move he nicknamed the “Tight & Shiny”), puking and then cleaning up the mess with his shirt, and bidding “Happy 9/11 day, everybody!”

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After nearly a year and a half more than a dozen meetings — some lasting as long as three hours each — on July 28 the village of Liverpool Planning Board unanimously approved plans to build a 38-seat back deck at the Limp Lizard Barbecue, 201 First St. and a 48-space parking lot behind that property to be shared by the White Water Pub, 110 S. Willow St.

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If you have trouble keeping your garden free of slugs and mice, consider these tips to turn it into a snake sanctuary.

From the David Suzuki Foundation:

Tip 1: Avoid pesticides

Slug bait is harmful to snakes, other wildlife, children and pets!

Tip 2: Imitate nature

Avoid monocultures of plants that are planted in straight lines.

Tip 3: Use stones

Move objects like stones and slate carefully. They may be providing cover for your snake friends.

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The foreign turtle species is breeding fast, eating up fish and birds – and has a ferocious bite.

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ALL manner of scaly and spiky creatures will be on show when the North-East Reptile Show returns this weekend.

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By Sathya Achia Abraham and Eric Peters, Virginia Commonwealth University More than 10,000 reptile species have been recorded into the Reptile Database , a web-based catalogue of all living reptile species and classification, making the reptile species among the most diverse vertebrate groups in the world, alongside bird and fish species. For some time, experts have projected that 2014 would …

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When 150-pound reptile found on street near Los Angeles, officers joke about chasing the slow animal

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Mayor Robert Eschbach and the Ottawa Area Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors paid a call to The Sticky Lizard ice cream and yogurt shop for its grand opening ribbon-cutting July 25. The self-serve shop also offers Italian ice, gelato and slushies as well as a topping bar with 40 dessert toppings.

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More than 10,000 reptile species have been recorded into the Reptile Database, a web-based catalogue of all living reptile species and classification, making the reptile species among the most diverse vertebrate groups in the world, alongside bird and fish species.

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As of this year, scientists have named and described over 10,000 reptiles, marking a new milestone in cataloging one of the most diverse vertebrate groups. Last week, the Reptile Database, an online catalog of all the world’s living reptiles, announced it had passed 10,000 species.

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ALL manner of scaly and spiky creatures will be on show when the North-East Reptile Show returns this weekend.

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Namdapha National Park is part of the Indo-Myanmar biodiversity hotspot. However, locating many species in the park is becoming increasingly difficult, the region has lost thousands of hectares of forest in the past decade, and studies project the situation may simply worsen in the coming years.

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A professor has succeeded in constructing a first-of-its-kind comprehensive diagram of the geographic distribution of amphibians, showing the movement of 3,309 species between 12 global ecoregions. Armed with DNA sequence data, he sought to accurately piece together the 300-million-year storyline of their journey.

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This sea turtle hatchling emerged July 29 during an excavation of the first nest laid this season on the beach at Emerald Isle.

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A photographer in Hawaii has captured the stunning moment dozens of tiny fish operating an underwater 'car wash' latch onto a sea turtle to give it a clean.

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