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.

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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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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