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Tiny cameras are recording the actions of people, animals and police departments.

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Satellite data reveals by-catch hotspots for endangered species

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Lizard study supports Darwin's hunch that lack of predators leads to unwatchful behaviour.

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Scientists working in Africa have uncovered a new crocodile species hiding in plain site, according to a paper published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Looking at the molecular data of the slender-snouted crocodile, the researchers discovered two distinct species: one in West Africa and another in Central Africa. Although mostly lumped together as one species (Mecistops cataphractus) for over a hundred and fifty years, the scientists found that the two species have actually been split for at least seven million years, well before the evolution of hominins.

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Baby, it’s cold out there. But are your efforts to keep your reptiles warm putting them — and you! — in danger?

From an article written for kingsnake.com by Susan Jacob:

My tortoise and my lizards have extended time out in the sunshine in the summer. Once fall arrives, it’s time to start getting everyone indoors. Here in New York it is not good reptile weather after late September. The lizards have their own set ups, but the sulcata tortoise, being as big as she is, is in a pen in my boiler/laundry room. I have 80-degree temperatures in that room for most of the winter, with an occasional drop when the weather is really cold. Most of the animals can take that and I don’t keep the heat too high at night.

I always keep the tortoise on fresh timothy or alfalfa hay and I switch off in the winter when she isn’t getting the green grass of the lawn to graze on. In the past few winters I used an UVB/heat bulb over her pen, but always had a problem getting it to stay put. I use the metal light bulb holders with the clips and it seems they always slip and fall sideways directing the heat to the other direction or worse into the plastic wall of the pen. I meant to buy a holder to keep the light fixture upright, but kept putting it off.

I was doing laundry at the time in the basement and that day the tortoise was hiding under her hay, so I adjusted the UVB/heat bulb in her direction, using the clip on the back of the fixture to attach it to my husband’s workbench, which is along side her pen. Ten minutes later, I was supposed to leave to go food shopping, but had put it off a bit to go online and check my email. Thank God I did, because that little sidetrack probably saved my house. I was upstairs for maybe five minutes, tops, when the downstairs fire/smoke alarm went off. I was busy on the computer and it took about three seconds to realize what it was. I was thinking it was the alarm on the washer when it goes out of balance. When it finally hit me I took off for the basement. I swear I took the last four steps in a leap, twisting my calf muscle in the process.

When I rushed into the reptile room the lamp had popped off and was lying fully on and operational down in the hay in the tortoise enclosure. The room was smoky and the hay was blackened and smoldering. I grabbed the light and put it on the floor and grabbed the entire armful of blackened hay and ran and dumped it in the slop sink and turned on the water. It had not ignited in a flash, but I believe if I had been a few minutes later it …read more
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THE LAYOUT: For local and visiting golfers on the island of Maui, Pukalani is a refreshing and delightful alternative to the mega-resort courses at Kapalua, Wailea, Kaanapali and Makena. Designed by Bob Baldock and opened in 1979, Pukalani is perched at the 1,100-foot level on the rolling terrain of Mt. Haleakala, the largest dormant volcano in the world, in what the natives call Upcountry …

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Lizard-like robots with sticky feet may one day work on spacecraft like the International Space Station, saving astronauts from making as many dangerous spacewalks.

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Flying Lizard Motorsports wrapped up the first test of the 2014 TUDOR United SportsCar Championship season in successful fashion, running its No. 35 and No. 45 Audi R8 LMS race cars for eight separate sessions over three days, and finishing with the quickest lap time in the 28-car GT Daytona class at a 1:47.981, quicker than the fastest Audi race and qualifying laps from 2013. The PR … Keep …

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Flying Lizard Motorsports has been very busy in the short offseason following its 2013 American Le Mans Series GTC-class team championship, moving to a new partnership with Audi Sport customer racing to run two 2014 Audi R8 LMS race cars, the No. 35 and No. 45, in the GT Daytona class in the 2014 TUDOR United SportsCar Championship. Building from the team's first experiences with its … Keep …

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As winter approaches, many of us hunker down and virtually “hibernate” for the season. Classic hibernation in the wild conjures images of furry bears, but other animals are not so lucky to have immense fat stores or fur to protect them from the elements. Frogs that live at northern latitudes have neither of these, but must find ways to survive the harsh winter season. Their solution? Freezing … but not to death.

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Someone thought it would be funny to release nine baby crocodiles into an Australian swimming pool, but it cost one of the babies his life.

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The 25-30 centimetre crocodiles are still at the pool in a turtle tank waiting to be picked up by local snake and reptile handler Gavin Lawrence.

He said what started as a harmless prank ended up killing one of the baby crocodiles.

“It’s annoying they’ve dumped them in the pool,” he said.

“The chlorine is no good for them and at the end of the day it’s sort of reckless.”

Mrs Rodriquez said she suspected the baby crocodile succumbed to the heat after it was found after closing time outside of the pool.

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Lizard-like robots with sticky feet may one day work on spacecraft like the International Space Station, saving astronauts from making as many dangerous spacewalks.

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BACHOK: A hawksbill turtle that landed on Pantai Chenang Laut in Tawang here on Tuesday surprised villagers as it was the first of such sighting in decades. Kampung Padang Nibong residents went in droves to the beach after news spread about the discovery of the hawksbill by a teenager about 4.30pm. Mohd Farid Ismail, 17, said he and a friend were riding horses when they spotted the turtle on the …

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Lizard-like robots with sticky feet may one day work on spacecraft like the International Space Station, saving astronauts from making as many dangerous spacewalks.

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$890,000 project opens six months after controversial start to project Towson's Greene Turtle restaurant on Thursday unveiled its new rooftop “Turtle Shell” bar, an $890,000 addition, which caused a stir when proposed six months ago because of the public loans approved to help fund the project.        

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Lizard-like robots with sticky feet may one day work on spacecraft like the International Space Station, saving astronauts from making as many dangerous spacewalks.

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Lizard-like robots with sticky feet may one day work on spacecraft like the International Space Station, saving astronauts from making as many dangerous spacewalks.

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Each year, a German conservation organization called NABU lists those animals it considers most in need of protection in the coming year. This year, one of those animals is the yellow-bellied toad:

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Tortoise MLP Fund, Inc. today announced that as of Dec. 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $2.0 billion and its unaudited net asset value

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Tortoise Pipeline & Energy Fund, Inc. today announced that as of Dec. 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $408.8 million and its unaud

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Tortoise Power and Energy Infrastructure Fund, Inc. today announced that as of Dec. 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $234.6 million and

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Tortoise North American Energy Corp. today announced that as of Dec. 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $284.6 million and its unaudited

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Tortoise Energy Capital Corp. today announced that as of Dec. 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $1.2 billion and its unaudited net asset

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Tortoise Energy Independence Fund, Inc. today announced that as of Dec. 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $453.8 million and its unaudit

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Tortoise Energy Infrastructure Corp. today announced that as of Dec. 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $2.3 billion and its unaudited ne

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A reserve that is home to the world’s largest population of the critically endangered blue-throated macaw (Ara glaucogularis) has been more than doubled in size, reports the American Bird Conservancy (ABC), a group that helped fund the expansion.

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Byline: The Lizard lifeboat has launched just after 1:30 this morning (New Year's Day) to a report of a person having been swept into the sea off the Lizard Peninsular. Page Content: Falmouth Coastguard tasked The Lizard lifeboat crew to search the sea off Loe Bar between Porthleven and Gunwalloe, the Lizard, after they had received a call reporting a person missing after a group of friends had …

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Endless rain. Loneliness. Years of agonizingly slow research. Bouts of malaria. Despite it all, a community of scientists in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands are working to chart the smallest animal and the most obscure plant – the building blocks of the universe.

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The Outdoor Technology Turtle Shell 2.0 portable Bluetooth speaker can get quite loud for its size, but it suffers from some distortion woes on bass-heavy genres.

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This notice provides stockholders of Tortoise Power and Energy Infrastructure Fund, Inc. with information regarding the distribution paid on Dec. 31, 2013 and cumulativ

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Scientific American has the top ten weird animal stories of 2013, including this amphibious tale:

For Emei moustache toads, a top-quality moustache is an essential, and violent, weapon … During the breeding season, each male grows 10 to 16 spines. “They are as sharp as a pencil lead” says Cameron Hudson of the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, adding that the frogs “do try to stab you a bit when you pick them up”.

The males fought underwater, head-butting each other in the belly to drive their spines into the other toad’s flesh. “I’ve never seen any of them kill each other,” says Hudson. “But they get a lot of puncture wounds.”

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Since 1985, the Turtle Island Quartet has forged a name for itself as a classically based string quartet that plays jazz.

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Like every year, wildlife conservation had its ups and downs in 2013. Elephant and rhino poaching hit levels unseen since the 1970′s, but there were nascent signs of growing awareness in China on the impacts of wildlife trade, including official bans on the serving of wildlife products at official state affairs. Meanwhile there were major developments in endangered species reintroduction programs, the controversial de-extinction (resurrection biology) movement, and efforts to apply household technologies like model airplanes (e.g. conservation drones), mobile phones, and digital cameras (e.g. camera traps) to conservation.

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There are only 13 Lizard junipers in the Gew Graze Valley on the Lizard Peninsula and they are failing to regenerate.

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Conservationists hope to save an “extremely rare” plant which is only found in the wild in the UK in one valley in Cornwall.

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Parametric Sound Corporation , a leading innovator of audio technology and solutions, announced today that, at a special meeting of stockholders held on December 27, 2013, Parametric stockholders overwhelmingly …

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2013 was full of major developments in efforts to understand and protect the world’s tropical rainforests. The following is a review of some of the major tropical forest-related news stories for the year. As a review, this post will not cover everything that transpired during 2013 in the world of tropical forests. Please feel free to highlight anything this post missed via the comments section at the bottom. Also please note that this review focuses only on tropical forests.

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Somehow, Meghan the turtle made a wrong turn – and meandered about 1,000 miles too far to the north. Normally, her kind prefers warm tropical waters near South America.        

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