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Meeting to be held in New York on May 29 hosted by Needham.
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Turtle Beach management to meet with Needham
Facebook, Twitter to carry 24 hours of live rainforest animal sightings on Monday
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Next week, the rainforests of Southeast Asia are going live. On June 2nd, 11 organizations in the region will be posting lives video, photos, and wildlife sightings over 24 hours on Facebook and Twitter (see #rainforestlive). Dubbed Rainforest: Live, the initiative hopes to raise awareness of quickly vanishing ecosystems and species.
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The taste of turtle meat and fat
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The apprehension of Chinese poachers in our waters by the Philippine Coast Guard occurs so often that it does not readily make headline news.
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Tree lizard clings to friend after launching itself from the ground
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Iwan Susanto, from Tangerang in Indonesia, photographed this tree lizard as it climbed up another lizard's tail in order to get to a high branch.
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Ancient 'Fish Lizard' Graveyard Discovered Beneath Melting Glacier
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Dozens of nearly complete skeletons of prehistoric marine reptiles have been uncovered near a melting glacier in southern Chile. These creatures, whose Greek name means “fish lizards,” were a group of large, fast-swimming marine reptiles that lived during the Mesozoic Era, about 245 million to 90 million years ago. “They look a lot like dolphins today,” said Wolfgang Stinnesbeck, a …
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Unique program at Georgia Sea Turtle Center allows public an insider view
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Take a look inside the mysterious world of Jekyll Island's endangered sea turtles through a program called Ride with Night Patrol.
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Venom: More fun than a bowl full of jelly
Who wouldn’t want to see snake venom turn a dish of blood to jelly? Fortunately io9.com has you covered:
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Tortoise Capital Advisors Announces Stockholder Approval of the Merger of TYG, TYY and TYN
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Tortoise Capital Advisors today announced that stockholders of its MLP closed-end funds Tortoise Energy Infrastructure Corp. , Tortoise Energy Capital Corp. and Tortoise North American Energy Corp.
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Universal antidote for snakebite: Experimental trial represents promising step toward
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Another promising step has been made toward developing a universal antidote for snakebite. The results of this pilot study revealed findings that support the team’s idea that providing fast, accessible, and easy-to-administer treatment can increase survival rates in victims of venomous snakebite.
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Appeal after stray reptile found
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The RSPCA is trying to trace the owners of an iguana found wandering down a street in Cardiff.
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Turtle Beach Corporation Signs IAVI as a Value-Added Distributor for HyperSound Directional Audio Products
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SAN DIEGO, May 28, 2014 /PRNewswire/ – Turtle Beach Corporation (NASDAQ: HEAR), a leading innovator of audio products and solutions, today announced the addition of IAVI as a distributor for its HyperSound® …
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Would you like a full-body python massage?
Would you find it a relaxing experience to have pythons crawl all over you? That’s the latest spa treatment at the Cebu City Zoo in the Philippines.
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Gator causes traffic woes in Montgomery County
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New Caney tow truck driver Slinky Knox got the call about 1:30 a.m. May 26, and helped Montgomery County Precinct 5 deputy constables remove an 8-foot alligator off San Jacinto River Bridge on Texas 242. He released the reptile back into the water.
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Scaly gem discovered in South American cloudforests
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Ecuadorian scientists have discovered a gem-looking new species of shade lizard in cloudforests of northwestern Ecuador. DNA data suggest that the closest relative of the new species is a widespread species living along the Pacific lowlands in Ecuador and Colombia.
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Parametric Sound Completes Name Change To Turtle Beach Corporation
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SAN DIEGO, May 27, 2014 /PRNewswire/ – Turtle Beach Corporation (NASDAQ: HEAR), a leading innovator of audio products and solutions, has announced it has changed its name from Parametric Sound Corporation, …
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Reptile Gardens hits the Guiness Book of World Records
South Dakota’s Reptile Gardens has made the big time: The Guiness Book of World Records has named it the world’s largest collection of reptiles.
From The Rapid City Journal:
Years ago, Reptile Gardens Public Relations Director Johnny Brockelsby, son of the founder, sent documentation to Guinness of the more than 200 species housed at the attraction. But he never heard a word.
This month, someone mentioned that the 260-page 2014 edition of the venerable record book featured Reptile Gardens and Brockelsby immediately ran out and bought a copy.
“I was shocked but absolutely thrilled,” Brockelsby said Thursday. “We have always claimed we were the world’s largest, but everybody claims they are the biggest this or the biggest that. But when the new book came out naming us the largest reptile collection in the world, it immediately gave us credibility.”
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Indonesia’s forests increasingly empty of wildlife
By Herp News
Tropical rainforests are the most species-rich ecosystems in the world. Each square kilometer has hundreds of tree species, birds and mammals, and countless other creatures. The idea that these forests could be devoid of animal life therefore seems ludicrous. Still the disappearance of birds, mammals and other species is what is happening in Indonesian forests. The ‘empty forest’ syndrome is becoming an increasing reality in this country.
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Is Godzilla Really An ‘American Fatty’? We Asked A Lizard Expert
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Is Godzilla really an “American fatty”? We asked a lizard expert about the King of Monsters' health and habits.
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Memorial Day 2014
In memory of all who served, from all of us at kingsnake.com.
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Illegal trade spikes in rare South Asian turtle: TRAFFIC
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A South Asian turtle famed for its polka dot skin is under growing threat of extinction as demand for it as an exotic pet booms, a wildlife monitoring group warned Friday. Hundreds of the black spotted …
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Herp Video of the Week: Cute Frog!
Check out this video “Cute Frog,” submitted by kingsnake.com user PH FasDog.
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New Species Of Shade Lizard Discovered In South American Cloudforests
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Pensoft Publishers Field and laboratory work by Omar Torres-Carvajal from Museo de Zoología QCAZ, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, and his former undergraduate student Simón Lobos has resulted in the discovery of a gem-looking new species of shade lizard from the cloudforests in northwestern Ecuador . This region is part of the 274,597 km2 Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena hotspot that lies …
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Emerald-faced reptile discovered in Ecuador
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Researchers have discovered a colorful lizard species in the cloud forests of northwestern Ecuador.
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Ipswich: Stowaway lizard causes a stir at animal centre after sneaking into Ipswich holidaymaker’s luggage in Portugal
By Herp News
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
By Herp News
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
By Herp News
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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