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[Update on 6 September 2013, 10:20 am: Added updates from McDonald's Singapore] McDonald's Singapore has sent a sample of the half-eaten Sausage McMuffin, in which a customer claims to have found a baby lizard, for a lab test. According to … Continue reading →
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McDonald's Singapore faces a reptile ruckus after a customer claimed to have found a baby lizard in a Sausage McMuffin.
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McDonald's Singapore faces a reptile ruckus after a customer claimed to have received a Sausage McMuffin containing a baby lizard.
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A McDonald's Sausage McMuffin burger which a customer in Singapore claimed to contain a baby lizard has been sent to a laboratory for testing. The fast-food chain sent an employee down to the custome …..
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The olive ridley sea turtle was underweight, hypothermic and barely breathing when it was discovered stranded by Marine Animal Rescue workers in early January.
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BOCA RATON – More than 500 sea turtle hatchlings were gently released by hand today onto sea beds off Florida’s Atlantic Coast, where the turtles have a better chance to survive.
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BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — More than 500 sea turtle hatchlings were gently released by hand Thursday onto sea beds off Florida's Atlantic Coast, where the turtles have a better chance to survive.
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BOCA RATON, Fla. — More than 500 sea turtle hatchlings were gently released by hand Thursday onto sea beds off Florida's Atlantic Coast, where the turtles have a better chance to survive.
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When it comes to snakes, “protection” apparently equals “death.”
Check out the final paragraph of a news story out of Norway today, about just under 200 pythons who were seized in a police raid in Oslo:
The snakes and other reptiles were turned over to animal protection authorities at state agency Mattilsynet, but were expected to be put to death.
Setting aside the blistering ignorance about snakes evident from the rest of the police statements, and the massive over-reaction to the mere existence of these snakes, and even setting aside the culpability of anyone who smuggles and keeps illegal animals, what exactly did the snakes do to deserve death?
Will Norwegian officials attempt to find some non-lethal solution? Will they appeal to the international reptile community for help?
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After hunting dogs, an electric fence and traps couldn’t get the job done, a German town looking to remove a snapping turtle from a lake has asked a blacksmith to create a giant rake to fish out the sharp-beaked reptile.
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Last month scientists unveiled a remarkable discovery: a new mammal in the order Carnivora (even though it mostly lives off fruits) in the Andean cloud forests. This was the first new mammal from that order in the Western Hemisphere since the 1970s. The olinguito had long been mistaken for its closest relatives, olingos—small tree-dwelling mammals that inhabit the lowland rainforests of South and Central America—however genetic research showed the olinguito had actually been separated by 3-4 million years from its cousins.
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TORONTO , Sept. 4, 2013 /CNW/ – For one weekend September 14 and 15th one of North America's largest LIVE reptile hobby shows is in Toronto at the International Center on Airport Rd. With over 85 000 square …
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The owners of a reptile zoo on Barton Street says they will take legal action to keep about 20 animals that the city says violate the animal control bylaw.
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Byline: The Lizard lifeboat was launched for the third time in three days on Friday afternoon, this time to a 25 metre commercial scalloping vessel that had suffered an engine fire, approximately 2 miles south of Lizard Point. Page Content: The lifeboat was launched with a crew of seven just after 4pm on Friday afternoon by Falmouth Coastguard, after the fishing vessel Vanquish with five people …
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A mysterious disease wiped out nearly all fire salamanders in the Netherlands, even those taken into captivity to protect them. Now scientists have identified the fungus responsible, and warned it could spread to amphibians around the world.
From Scientific American:
But now the cause of the fire salamanders’ rapid decline has been revealed. According to a paper published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the fire salamanders in the Netherlands contracted a previously unknown fungus related to Bd, the fungus that causes chytridiomycosis. The paper dubs the new fungus Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans spec. nov. It causes superficial erosions on the salamanders’ skin, followed by deep ulcerations and microscopic skin necrosis. Captive-bred amphibians which the scientists exposed to the fungus died in as little as seven days.
“At this moment we don’t know the origin of the fungus,” says the paper’s lead author, An Martel of the Department of Pathology, Bacteriology and Avian Diseases at Ghent University. “It can be an endemic species that became virulent or it can be an invasive species that was introduced in the Netherlands. Worldwide monitoring can give us an answer to this question. But still, if the fungus would spread a lot of amphibian populations are at risk.”
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A fast food customer in Singapore had the shock of her life when she discovered the tail of a baby lizard sticking out of her half-eaten Sausage McMuffin on Wednesday. A photo of the half-eaten burger was snapped and sent … Continue reading →
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Leapin’ lizards! Hunters in Mississippi broke a state record for the heaviest alligator ever bagged, kicking off the season with two monster catches. Dustin Bockman of Wisconsin and two hunting buddies bagged the 727-pound 13-foot-long beast on Sunday, beating the previous year’s record-setter by 26 pounds, according to the…
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Authorities say they found found evidence of a live loggerhead sea turtle and unhatched sea turtle eggs at Kim Raymond Feaste's home.
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Tortoise Energy Independence Fund, Inc. today announced that as of Aug. 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $431.9 million and its unaudit
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Tortoise Pipeline & Energy Fund, Inc. today announced that as of Aug. 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $380.7 million and its unaud
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Tortoise MLP Fund, Inc. today announced that as of Aug. 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $1.9 billion and its unaudited net asset value
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Tortoise Power and Energy Infrastructure Fund, Inc. today announced that as of Aug. 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $230.8 million and
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Tortoise North American Energy Corp. today announced that as of Aug. 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $253.3 million and its unaudited
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Tortoise Energy Capital Corp. today announced that as of Aug. 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $1.0 billion and its unaudited net asset
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Tortoise Energy Infrastructure Corp. today announced that as of Aug. 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $2.0 billion and its unaudited ne
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Authorities say they found found evidence of a live loggerhead sea turtle and unhatched sea turtle eggs at Kim Raymond Feaste's home.
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If you want a Gardiner’s Seychelles frog to hear what you have to say, tell him to forget his ears and open his mouth.
From NatGeo:
Scientists had thought that the Gardiner’s Seychelles frog—at 11 millimeters among the tiniest in the world—was deaf because it doesn’t have a middle ear, a critical component of hearing that’s found most land animals.
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So the scientists x-rayed one of the tiny frogs. The images revealed that the frogs’ pulmonary system is poorly developed, suggesting that the lungs aren’t contributing to hearing, according to the study, published September 2 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
So the scientists refocused their experiments on the frogs’ heads. By making various 3-D simulations of how sound travels through the frogs’ heads, the scientists found that the bones in their mouths act as an amplifier for sound waves.
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Gardiner’s frogs from the Seychelles islands, one of the smallest frogs in the world, do not possess a middle ear with an eardrum yet can croak themselves, and hear other frogs. An international team of scientists using X-rays has now solved this mystery and established that these frogs are using their mouth cavity and tissue to transmit sound to their inner ears.
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IRSEE, Germany, Sept. 2 (UPI) — Officials in a German village said they are planning to use a giant rake in an attempt to find a suspected alligator turtle in a local pond.
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Florida Fish and Wild life officials went to a man’s Channelside apartment and found a sea turtle in an aquarium. The man also is a suspect in the disturbing of a nest on Casey Key.
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In a world first, scientists have captured images and video of a boa constrictor attacking and devouring whole a femle howler monkey, one of the largest new world primates weighing in at around 4 kilograms (8.8 pounds). The rare predation event was recorded in a tiny forest fragment (2.5 hectares) in the Brazilian state of Rondonia by Erika Patricia Quintino, a PhD student at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul.
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In a world first, scientists have captured images and video of a boa constrictor attacking and devouring whole a femle howler monkey, one of the largest new world primates weighing in at around 4 kilograms (8.8 pounds). The rare predation event was recorded in a tiny forest fragment (2.5 hectares) in the Brazilian state of Rondonia by Erika Patricia Quintino, a PhD student at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul.
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Turtle Bay Resort's new incentive package invites companies to pack up their offices and bring them to the beach. Multi-million dollar renovation of guestrooms, spa, and restaurants near completion. (PRWeb August 31, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/8/prweb11076984.htm
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A Hillsborough County man is charged with illegally possessing a sea turtle and authorities say he
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An exotic lizard on the run caused a stir in a Texas neighborhood on Friday.
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MICHIGAN CITY—The 7th annual Washington Park Zoo Reptile Day on Saturday attempted to prove that snakes are not that bad once you get to know them.
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The reptile exhibit at the Saint John Exhibition is drawing mixed reactions from some patrons, who think it is occurring too soon after the tragic deaths of two young brothers in Campbellton.
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A reptile rescuer said he has removed an increasing number of illegal, deadly snakes and even alligators from homes in Utah.
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Officials hope the second reptile amnesty day will stop people from releasing alligators into the wild on LI.
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A large wild snapping turtle is back in its natural habitat, after animal services officers in Winnipeg rescued it near an Elmwood intersection this morning.
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