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Conservationists seek help from the public to find out more about Scotland's snake, toad and lizard populations.

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By Victoria Cavaliere (Reuters) – Two young brothers found dead in an apartment over a reptile store in New Brunswick, Canada, were believed to have been strangled by a snake that escaped its enclosure and slithered into the building's ventilation system, police said on Monday. The boys, ages 5 and 7, were sleeping over at a friend's apartment above Reptile Ocean in the city of Campbellton …

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Parametric Sound Corporation , a leading innovator of audio products and solutions, and Turtle Beach, the market leader in video game audio, today announced that the companies have reached a Definitive …

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Details are few and changing, but the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is reporting that two children ages 5 and 7 are dead after a large python escaped its enclosure in the pet store below their apartment overnight in the town of Campbellton, New Brunswick.

According to the constable, it is thought the python entered the upstairs apartment through the ventilation system. “It’s believed the two boys were strangled by the snake,” she said. It is unknown at this time what type of snake is involved, which was initially reported as a boa constrictor.

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Gary Schmelz, in a Journey to the Edge of Eden, takes us through a wonderful personal account of the conservation history of Southwest Florida. Journey to the Edge of Eden is one part personal memoir similar to the English naturalist Gerald Durrell and one part Florida conservation history. With hilarious stories of unintended naturalist misadventures and recounting conservation “as it happened,” a Journey to the Edge of Eden is one of those rare books you read in a coffee shop and with gusto and pride while laughing along out loud at Gary Schmelz stories.

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Check out this video “Field Herping Adventure,” submitted by kingsnake.com user smetlogik.
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Fire breaks out in reptile house at Five Sisters Zoo in West Lothian Reptiles, insects and an otter died after a fire broke out at a Scottish zoo in the early hours of Sunday. Around 50 firefighters tackled the blaze at the reptile house of Five Sisters Zoo in Polbeth, West Lothian, after the alarm was raised at about 4am. Lesley Coupar, from marketing and visitor services at the zoo, described …

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A dead lizard was found in the mid-day meal served to children at a school in Berhampur district in Odisha on Saturday.

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A number of parks, beaches and conservation groups around the state run programs where nature-lovers can learn about the phenomenon and even watch baby turtles.

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Beating some long odds, biologists and volunteers this week returned a 300-pound loggerhead sea turtle to the Gulf of Mexico in Galveston. The endangered turtle was emaciated when discovered on the island's West Beach in early June, said Lyndsey Howell, research fishery biologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Galveston. At sunset Wednesday, biologists from NOAA and …

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GUANGZHOU, China, Aug. 2 (UPI) — Authorities in China said a man tried to smuggle his pet turtle onto an airplane by hiding it inside of a hamburger.

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Two-headed turtle Thelma and Louise now has two things in common with its namesake: Texas and celebrity status. The bisephalic Texas cooter, born at the San Antonio Zoo on June 18, is now certifiably Facebook famous with over 3,200 followers and counting.

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By VERONICA LINARES, UPI.com A man got caught trying to smuggle his pet turtle past airport security at the Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport in China.

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If you see a box turtle in New York, don’t pick it up and help it on its way; it probably already knows where it’s going.        

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Researchers are conducting some of the first ever scientific studies of neonate pine snakes, performing snake surgery for radio tracking and helping snakes survive road crossings through the busy New Jersey shore traffic.

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This is the second such incident within week in the school located in Hinjili, the Assembly constituency of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.

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Earlier, on July 25, a lizard was found in soya curry before it was served in the same school.

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This is the second such incident within week in the school located in Hinjili, the Assembly constituency of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.

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A dead lizard was found in the mid-day meal for the second time in a week, at a primary school at Hinjili in Odisha's Ganjam district today, officials said.

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A dead lizard was found in the mid-day meal at a primary school in Odisha Friday, an official said.

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Bhubaneswar, Aug 2 (IANS) A dead lizard was found in the mid-day meal at a primary school in Odisha Friday, an official said.

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Welcome to August!

kingsnake.com and RodentPro.com will be displaying the kingsnake.com Zombiehunter Snake Hunting Truck at the entrance to this years National Reptile Breeders Expo in Daytona Beach. kingsnake.com will also be handing out their free “I brake for snakes, not Zombies” bumper stickers and RodentPro discount coupons.

Join us from 10 am to 3 pm Saturday, August 18, and Sunday, August 19, outside the main entrance of the Ocean Center, grab a bumper sticker and a coupon — while supplies last! — and have your picture taken with the giant Zombiehunter truck!

The National Reptile Breeders Expo, one of the largest and oldest reptile and amphibian community events, will start in Daytona Beach on Thursday, August 15, and run through Sunday, August 19, at the Daytona Beach Hilton and the Ocean Center, on Atlantic Avenue.

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I have not been around on the site much, been busy and havent had access to a computer. I do however still keep turtles and tortoises. I made new threads under box turtles, and tortoises sections. I’m currently working on a new outdoor enclosure and hopefully a small pond. Also still have my website up, been up for years now lol… i still update it and its probably where i spend most my time. I am planning on coming back to turtletimes once again and become a active member once again. Till next time

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

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

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Tortoise North American Energy Corp. today announced that as of July 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $261.8 million and its unaudited

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Tortoise North American Energy Corp. today announced that as of July 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $261.8 million and its unaudited

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Tortoise Energy Independence Fund, Inc. today announced that as of July 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $429.6 million and its unaudit

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Tortoise Power and Energy Infrastructure Fund, Inc. today announced that as of July 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $234.2 million and

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Tortoise Energy Capital Corp. today announced that as of July 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $1.1 billion and its unaudited net asset

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Tortoise Pipeline & Energy Fund, Inc. today announced that as of July 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $390.4 million and its unaud

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Tortoise Energy Infrastructure Corp. today announced that as of July 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $2.1 billion and its unaudited ne

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In 1917, Joel Asaph Allen examined an innocuous species of shrew from the Congo Basin and made a remarkable discovery: the shrew’s spine was unlike any seen before. Interlocking lumbar vertebrae made the species’ spine four times strong than any other vertebrate on Earth adjusted for its size. The small mammal had been discovered only seven years before and was dubbed the hero shrew (Scutisorex somereni), after the name give to it by the local Mangbetu people, who had long known of the shrew’s remarkable abilities.

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In 1917, Joel Asaph Allen examined an innocuous species of shrew from the Congo Basin and made a remarkable discovery: the shrew’s spine was unlike any seen before. Interlocking lumbar vertebrae made the species’ spine four times strong than any other vertebrate on Earth adjusted for its size. The small mammal had been discovered only seven years before and was dubbed the hero shrew (Scutisorex somereni), after the name give to it by the local Mangbetu people, who had long known of the shrew’s remarkable abilities.

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Before the arrival of humans—with their dogs, cats, and wild pigs—the northern Bahamian rock iguana ruled its home range, being pound-for-pound among the biggest land animals on the islands. In these ecosystems, the iguana’s were the mega-grazers, the bison and elk of the Caribbean one might say. But hunting by humans, invasive species, and habitat loss knocked the king from its throne: pushing it into smaller habitats and decimating its population. Today the three subspecies of the northern Bahamian rock iguana (Cyclura cychlura) hang by a thread. And now a new threat is rising: poorly-regulated tourism, including iguana feeding.

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Turns out crocodiles have a sweet tooth — although unlike humans, they usually assuage it with fruit, not chocolate bars.

From New Scientist:

Reports that crocodiles have a taste for fruit go back decades, says Thomas Rainwater at the US Fish and Wildlife Service in Charleston, South Carolina. “But since these animals were long considered carnivores, no one paid much attention.”

In a routine analysis of American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) living in the Everglades National Park in Florida, Rainwater and his colleagues found fruit including pond apples in the alligators’ stomachs. They then turned up reports that at least 13 of the 23 living crocodilian species are fruit eaters.

Whether or not crocodilians actively go after fruit is debatable – especially as the predators are secretive and tend to do most of their foraging at night. A crocodile might simply eat an animal that has itself recently dined on fruit, for example.

But there is some evidence that fruit is consumed deliberately, too.

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The head of the Ottawa Humane Society says he's disturbed by reports alleging reptile neglect at an Ottawa big box pet store, and said he wants reptile owners to know his organization is equipped to come to the aid of exotic pets.

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

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They still call the Balkans “the Powder Keg of Europe.” For good reason too: bloody ethnic and religious conflicts in the past decades have left hundreds of thousands dead and millions displaced. As recently as 2001, the army in Macedonia was fighting with ethnic Albanians, many of them from Kosovo. However, in the past seven years a rare and charismatic wild cat – the Balkan lynx (Lynx lynx balcanicus)– is serving to unify countries with troubled historical and political relations. Albania, Macedonia, Kosovo and Montenegro are collaborating on a joint conservation strategy for the Critically Endangered animal.

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When firefighters entered a burning home in northern Utah, they found a roomful of snakes, some venomous.

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Among the snakes that were found were some of the most deadly, including five albino western diamondbacks and a Gaboon viper.

“The Gaboon viper is considered one of the most dangerous snakes in the world,” said Brad Hunt of the Utah Division of Wildlife. “It has very long fangs and very potent venom.”

The Gaboon Viper is indigenous to Africa, and anti-venom for the snake is not readily available in the United States.

Having venomous snakes is illegal in the state of Utah, and even native snakes must be registered and have permits. It is suspected that the owner, whose name has not been released but who officials believe is a snake professional or breeder, smuggled at least the Gaboon viper from out of state.

He was cited for possession of illegal animals, and Animal Control was in contact with an attorney to consider options for pressing any misdemeanor charges.

The snakes that he owned legally will be returned to him, officials said.

An animal control officer on the scene noted “the snakes were kept in ‘incredible condition’ and in ‘immaculate facilities.'”

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