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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.
From the North West Star:
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:
See the rest of the animals NABU thinks need special protection here.
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Check out our Herp Video of the Week, “Corn Snake Morphs and Genetics,” submitted by kingsnake.com user boa2cobras.
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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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Check out our Herp Video of the Week, “Caiman lizards at the Nashville zoo,” submitted by kingsnake.com user jw.
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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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The Loggerhead Marinelife Center says the first-ever occurrence of an olive ridley sea turtle stranding in Palm Beach County occurred on Christmas Day.
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Tortoise Capital Advisors mourns the loss of Dr. John R. Graham, a valued and influential founding member of its closed-end fund board of directors, who died on Dec. 20, 2013 after
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A LIZARD was killed in a house fire in Leigh.
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A nationwide ban on importing four giant snake species or transporting them across state lines is costing reptile breeders, handlers, hobbyists and vendors millions and should be overturned, according …
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Miami — A nationwide ban on importing four giant snake species or transporting them across state lines is costing reptile breeders, handlers, hobbyists and vendors millions and should be overturned, according to a lawsuit filed by a reptile industry trade
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Reptile industry trade association sues US government to overturn ban on 4 giant snake species
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A nationwide ban on importing four giant snake species or transporting them across state lines is costing reptile breeders, handlers, hobbyists and vendors millions and should be overturned, according to a lawsuit filed by a reptile industry trade association.
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