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Researchers have discovered a colorful lizard species in the cloud forests of northwestern Ecuador.
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Emerald-faced reptile discovered in Ecuador
Ipswich: Stowaway lizard causes a stir at animal centre after sneaking into Ipswich holidaymaker’s luggage in Portugal
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Meet Mr Hernandez, a jet-setting lizard who has caused quite a stir at a Suffolk animal centre.
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Zero-deforestation commitments face acute challenges for commercial giants in the palm oil industry
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The path to zero-deforestation appears to be paved with good intentions, but how successful are these companies in staying on that path? A controversial proposal to construct a refinery in the wildlife-rich Balikpapan Bay in Indonesian Borneo highlights the challenges faced by both palm oil companies and conservationists in the face of zero-deforestation commitments.
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Evolve™ Release Date Announced: The Hunt Begins on October 21, 2014
By Herp News
2K and Turtle Rock Studios, creators of the cooperative shooter classic Left 4 Dead, today announced that their upcoming multiplayer shooter experience Evolve™ will be released globally on October 21, 2014 for Xbox One, the all-in-one games and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system and PC.
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Olinguito, tinkerbell, and a dragon: meet the top 10 new species of 2013
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Out of around 18,000 new species described and named last year, scientists have highlighted ten in an effort to raise awareness about the imperiled biodiversity around us. Each species—from a teddy-bear-like carnivore in the Andes to a microbe that survives clean rooms where spaceships are built—stands out from the crowd for one reason or another.
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Caution Drivers! Turtles Take the Road During Breeding Season
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Turtle season is happening now. You may be seeing more of the reptiles crossing the road over the next couple of months. It turns out the turtle population takes a big hit from these creatures venturing onto roads. Lynn Johnson is a mother of three boys and lives in the Springfield area. “Most recently I saw a turtle crossing the road last week driving around with the kids …
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Caution Drivers! Turtles Take the Road During Breeding Season
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Turtle season is happening now. You may be seeing more of the reptiles crossing the road over the next couple of months. It turns out the turtle population takes a big hit from these creatures venturing onto roads. Lynn Johnson is a mother of three boys and lives in the Springfield area. “Most recently I saw a turtle crossing the road last week driving around with the kids …
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Tybee records first sea turtle nest of season
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Tybee Island recorded its first loggerhead sea turtle nest of the season Tuesday morning.
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Turtle Stolen From Children’s Room At Fall River Library
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Police are looking for a man they believe stole the Fall River Public Library's turtle mascot.
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After 80 years, lost snake species rediscovered
The Clarion night snake, Hypsiglena unaocularis, hasn’t been spotted in 80 years. Its only known sighting, in 1936, was a single preserved specimen brought to the U.S. by naturalist William Beebe. That just changed, as the species was spotted on Mexico’s Revillagigedo Islands.
From the Christian Science Monitor:
The existing dead sample was assumed to be a labelling error and the snake was largely struck from taxonomic registries.
But Daniel Mulcahy, a researcher for the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, suspected it might still exist. He and Juan Martinez Gomez of Mexico’s Ecology Institute set out to find it.
Martinez Gomez, an expert on the Revillagigedo Islands, noted the islands change a lot from season to season, so they timed the expedition last May to replicate Beebe’s steps as they looked for the snake, which blends in with the island’s rock formations and is largely active at night. And they used Beebe’s original field notes as a guide.
“Basically, following those directions, we essentially put ourselves in his place,” Martinez Gomez said.
One of his graduate students, Juan Alberto Cervantes, was the first to spot one of the snakes for the first time since 1936.
The researchers performed DNA analysis to establish the long, dark spotted snake as its own species and see where it had come from.
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Frankie Tortoise Tails – Hay is what's up
It just happen. I was heading to the back yard to check on Frankie and there it was. I had no idea that it would happen. It just couldn’t happen because it never happen before. I mean there he was. Frankie was sitting there eating hay.
Frankie was eating hay. He was EATING hay! Hay! Not grass but hay. Hay as in Vitakraft Orchard Grass Soft Stemmed Grass Hay from a plastic bag from Petsmart hay. Hay. Dried hay. He was eating hay.
I stood there for a moment watching him eat hay. I wanted to be sure it was hay and that he was eating it and that it wasn’t an accident. It wasn’t an accident. Frankie was eating the hay. Chomping the hay and then swallowing the hay and then eating some more hay.
It was hard believe what I was seeing. Frankie has refused hay for more than 12 years. He didn’t want to eat hay. Frankie wanted to sit on hay.
I cut up hay into small pieces, soaked hay in water, tried different brands: Frankie was not eating it. If I mixed chopped carrots into the hay to trick Frankie into eating the hay Frankie would pick through the hay and eat only the carrots.
Years and years I’ve tried. Frankie eating hay could have solved so many problems like absent grass in the winter or no grass in a new yard and I am trying very hard to get grass to grow in his yard so I have to run out twice daily and pick grass in vacant lots, public meridians, and parks.
So I am standing there watching Frankie eat hay. Frankie had nearly finished the hay so I quickly ran to his cave and fetched the bag of hay. I got back just in time as he finished the last bit of hay. Frankie was ready for more hay. Frankie wanted more hay!
I put down more hay while Frankie looked at me with real appreciation on his face. This was a bit surreal as Frankie has never appreciated hay as food, ever.
Frankie has accidentally eaten hay before. He has taken a few bites of hay in years gone by but it was just a quirk. I hesitated to really think this was the real thing, Frankie eating hay and liking it. Frankie eating hay could be a coincidence. I knew I would have to wait for tomorrow. If he ate hay two days in a row, well that would mean something.
All the next day I watched to see if Frankie was up for a repeat performance. Frankie was all over the yard looking for bits of new grass newly. He came begging for a carrot. As the day pressed forward but there was no hay eating. I was tempted to run out and pick some grass and weeds to mix in they hay but I held back …read more
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Epidemic of elephant calf kidnapping hits Sri Lanka, say conservationists
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In Sri Lanka, an underground wildlife racket has been simmering for a while. And a recent incident has brought it to a boil. On the night of May 1st, a gang attempted to kidnap a wild elephant calf out of the Uduwalawe National Park in Sri Lanka. But tipped off by alert villagers, police and wildlife officers foiled the abduction.
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Juvenile sea turtles returned to the wild in Florida
There’s a happy ending, and a new beginning, in store for Tinkerbell and Wendy, two juvenile sea turtles who have been returned to the wild after being cared for by the Walton Beach, Fla., Gulfarium Sea Turtle C.A.R.E. Program.
From the Pensacola News Journal:
As beachgoers watched in awe at Langdon Beach on Gulf Islands National Seashore, two Gulfarium specialists carefully removed Tinkerbell, a 20-pound green sea turtle, and Wendy, a 14-inch Kemp’s ridley, from large plastic containers and carried them to an inviting, calm and azure Gulf.
The turtles flapped their flippers furiously in anticipation of freedom as Rachel Cain and Samantha Fuentes carried them to the edge of the surf. Then with a splash punctuated by cheers from the crowd of onlookers, the two turtles swam with purpose toward open water, their shadowy shapes darting here and there under the clear sea.
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Reeves has a bubble on his nose – bubbles on his nose :(
i have a reeves turtle.. and he has bubble on his nose.. i dont know what to do, so i separate him to the others.. i put him to a separate enclosure and had him heatlamp.. i think he has cold.. he is quite active and eats alot though.. please help..
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Chinese officials seize nearly a thousand dead pangolins
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In one of the biggest pangolin trafficking cases yet recorded in China, officials confiscated 956 animals stuffed into 189 coolers this month. The dead pangolins were being carried overland in a truck, with the total haul weighing four tonnes. The traffickers were caught at the border of Guangdong Province. If convicted, they face up to ten years in jail.
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Council appoints new reptile ranger
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A conservation ranger is appointed to boost habitats for amphibians and reptiles in Flintshire.
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Snake on a runway? Pilot refuses to fly until he's safe
A pilot refused to take off at San Francisco International Airport until a gartner snake was moved from the runway to safety, prompting a flurry of Tweets from passengers:
Flight delayed briefly at SFO due to a SNAKE ON THE RUNWAY! Airport security is attempting to bag the snake and take it to a snake sanctuary
— Charlie Knights (@knightc3) May 16, 2014
From the New York Post:
A JFK-bound flight was delayed at the San Francisco airport Friday by a pilot who refused to squish a six-inch garter snake on the runway, officials said.
The Delta Air Lines pilot had announced a delay in takeoff to waiting passengers, explaining that a worker had been dispatched to snatch a wayward reptile off the runway, according to fliers tweeting from the plane.
A spokesman for San Francisco International Airport later said the snake was caught and set free in a “grassy area.”
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Godzilla's Attack on IMAX Boosts Its Box Office Power
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For a 60-year-old mutant lizard, Godzilla still has plenty of blockbuster power.
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Sam is garden's well-kept secret
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A huge, well-traveled Galapagos tortoise lives within the grounds of the San Diego Botanic Garden, but almost none of the garden’s more than 200,000 visitors a year ever see him.
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Camera trap catches rare feline attempting to tackle armored prey (VIDEO)
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One of the world’s least known wild cats may have taken on more than it could handle in a recent video released by the Gashaka Biodiversity Project from Nigeria’s biggest national park, Gashaka Gumti.
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The quiet zoo revolution
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A quiet zoo revolution has also been occurring over the past twenty-five years. Rather than just stand by the sidelines as species vanish in the wild, many zoos have begun funding on-the-ground conservation efforts. This revolution signals a widening realization by zoos of the positive—and wholly unique—role they could play in combating global mass extinction. But are zoos doing enough?
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Jet-fin turtle swims again!
A sea turtle named Hofesh was badly injured in 2009. Now, thanks to Jerusalem industrial design student Shlomi Gez, he’s cruising around with a prosthetic based a Lockheed Martin Corp.’s F-22 Raptor warplane.
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VIDEOS: Animal Planet's Jeff Corwin teaches Hatboro-Horsham School District students about reptiles, amphibians
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Six elementary school students stood anxiously awaiting some sort of reptile to be placed into their tiny hands at the Hatboro-Horsham School District assembly May 12.
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Injured sea turtle gets new fins modeled after U.S. fighter jet
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He can't return to wild but might mate with blind female turtle that shares his tank
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VIDEOS: Animal Planet's Jeff Corwin teaches Hatboro-Horsham School District students about reptiles, amphibians
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Six elementary school students stood anxiously awaiting some sort of reptile to be placed into their tiny hands at the Hatboro-Horsham School District assembly May 12.
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New Horned Lizard Species Found in Southern Mexico
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The researchers of a study featured in Herpetologica present a new species of horned lizard discovered in southern Mexico. The authors found that, unlike most horned lizards, the newly discovered species have rough scales. (PRWeb May 14, 2014) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/05/prweb11850185.htm
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Shot turtle goes back to the sea
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Toledo City, Cebu — An adult female green sea turtle rescued last weekend with four bullet wounds in its carapace is now back in its natural habitat, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) 7 through its Protected Areas Wildlife Bureau (PAWB) said yesterday. Tanon Strait Protected Seascape (TSPS) Assistant Protected Area Superintendent Lutheran Hernando, who conducted the …
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Shot turtle back to sea
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TOLEDO CITY, Cebu- An adult female green sea turtle with four gunshot wounds in its carapace recued over the weekend is now back in her natural habitat after it was recently released by officials of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) 7 through its Protected Areas Wildlife Bureau (PAWB). In a report submitted by Tanon Strait Protected Seascape (TSPS) Assistant Protected …
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Wirral children's author Jon Mayhew is walking with dinosaurs
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The Wrath of the Lizard Lord is a book with bite
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Prosthetic fin helps injured turtle
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A badly injured sea turtle's prospects are looking up – thanks to a new prosthetic fin designed by an Israeli team and modelled after the wings of a US fighter jet.
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VIDEOS: Animal Planet's Jeff Corwin teaches Hatboro-Horsham School District students about reptiles, amphibians
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Six elementary school students stood anxiously awaiting some sort of reptile to be placed into their tiny hands at the Hatboro-Horsham School District assembly May 12.
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Israeli team designs prosthetic fin to save turtle
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MICHMORET, Israel (AP) — A badly injured sea turtle's prospects are looking up — thanks to a new prosthetic fin designed by an Israeli team and modeled after the wings of a U.S. fighter jet.
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VIDEOS: Animal Planet's Jeff Corwin teaches Hatboro-Horsham School District students about reptiles, amphibians
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Six elementary school students stood anxiously awaiting some sort of reptile to be placed into their tiny hands at the Hatboro-Horsham School District assembly May 12.
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The Adventures of Booger, Pokey and Teddy… – Pokey’s First Adventure
The day we brought the Trio home Pokey was feeling a little under the weather. She didn’t want to move or eat; she would sit in the water pan, her eyes closed, for hours. Her eyes were puffy and dull and when she started blowing bubbles from her nose I knew there was something wrong. I just wasn’t sure what. After a good day of soaking she ate a little but nothing like the other two.
Not knowing what to do I turned to Turtle Times and was told that it sounded like RI. Under Karen’s advise I removed her from the others and put her in a tub that I had scrubbed up with Dawn – I figured if it was strong enough but gentle enough for animals in oil spills that it would work for this. So I laid a clean towel in the bottom and put another in for her to burrow under.
When I went out to get Pokey I came across a rather sweet scene of Teddy and Booger (Hotrod) snuggling Pokey between them. It was during a cold snap that had rolled in after the tornadoes had hit Quapaw (4/28/14).
Pokey settled into her tub with reluctance but with that first pan of warmed rain water she settled then promptly dumped it, soaking the towels and making her own humidifier. That first day it was warm outside so we took her outside and the bubbles started clearing up. That night she earned her nick name of Picky Pokey when I was checking her out and she bit my little finger. Later she tried to do so again but she was given a bite of apple instead and started chowing down.
Her bubbles seemed to come and go for the next couple of days. They cleared up and then during one of her ‘walks’ the bubbles appeared again and she became grumpy when I decided that she’d had enough exercise and tucked her back away in her tub. This was back on May 3 and she has been under the watchful eye of Tippy the nurse kitty ever since.
Since then she’s been doing better. I’ve learned that he was actually a she and Pokey has quite a sassy attitude. She loves her walks out in the front yard in the sunshine and she loves eating her june bugs and her favorite way of catching them is in water. She has gotten a fan in the form of Scruffy, a little terrier mix that thinks she is just the best thing in the world. He insists on helping me take care of her and whenever she scratches in her tub Scruffy is the first over to check on her. He can’t reach her which seems to break his heart but they often sniff noses and since she was the one that seems to have been chewed on by a dog I think it’s a great step towards healing. …read more
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Tortoise wanders; owner cited for no permit
A tortoise ran away from home
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Spike only made it a half-mile away before being caught.
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Shot turtle goes back to the sea
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Toledo City, Cebu — An adult female green sea turtle rescued last weekend with four bullet wounds in its carapace is now back in its natural habitat, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) 7 through its Protected Areas Wildlife Bureau (PAWB) said yesterday. Tanon Strait Protected Seascape (TSPS) Assistant Protected Area Superintendent Lutheran […]
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Herp Video of the Week: Baby Caiman Lizards!
Check out this video “Baby Caiman Lizards,” submitted by kingsnake.com user Minuet.
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VIDEOS: Animal Planet's Jeff Corwin teaches Hatboro-Horsham School District students about reptiles, amphibians
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Six elementary school students stood anxiously awaiting some sort of reptile to be placed into their tiny hands at the Hatboro-Horsham School District assembly May 12.
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VIDEOS: Animal Planet's Jeff Corwin teaches Hatboro-Horsham School District students about reptiles, amphibians
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Six elementary school students stood anxiously awaiting some sort of reptile to be placed into their tiny hands at the Hatboro-Horsham School District assembly May 12.
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