Author: John Virata

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Burning Down The Forest To Restore The Collared Lizard

Burning Down The Forest To Restore The Collared Lizard

The introduction of firefighting after WWII to the Ozark Glades diminished collared lizard populations [...]
Hawksbill Sea Turtles Found Foraging And Living In Mangrove Estuaries

Hawksbill Sea Turtles Found Foraging And Living In Mangrove Estuaries

12 adult female Eretmochelys imbricatas were tracked to mangrove forests of Central America [...]
UK Scientist Teaches Tortoise To Yawn, Wins IG Nobel Award

UK Scientist Teaches Tortoise To Yawn, Wins IG Nobel Award

Chelonoidis carbonaria used in study on the spatial, visual and social cognition in tortoises [...]

Close To $68k Raised At The NARBC Tinley Park Show Auction

Show promoters insert special cause in auction to benefit Pro Exotics [...]

Copperhead Snake Reproduces Via Parthenogenesis

Agkistrodon contortrix collected in 1998 and kept in isolation gives birth three years later [...]

More Than 300 Reptile Lovers Attend The Reptile Zoo Masquerade At Prehistoric Pets In Fountain Valley, CA.

Some came in costumes while others came to check out the new exhibits, but the stars of the masquerades were definitely cold-blooded. [...]
Exo Terra Donation Enables PHS to Build Venom Room

Exo Terra Donation Enables PHS to Build Venom Room

Tours of venom room to begin week of Thanksgiving, Nov. 19-26, 2011 [...]
Surfer’s Antics Sparks Outrage After Riding Threatened Hawaiian Sea Turtle

Surfer’s Antics Sparks Outrage After Riding Threatened Hawaiian Sea Turtle

Pro surfer faces potential fines if found to have violated state and federal law for molesting chelonia mydas. [...]

Justin Bieber Auctions His Pet Boa Constrictor

The auction of Johnson will benefit Pencils of Promise and closes Nov. 29. [...]
NYC's Most Famous Iguana Dies At 19

NYC's Most Famous Iguana Dies At 19

Elizabeth the Iguana was equally at ease with children as well as celebrities and politicians. [...]

Bog Turtle Survival Enhanced Due To Public Private Conservation Efforts

Some programs offer compensation to landowners who restore and protect bog turtle areas. [...]
Memphis Zoo Welcomes Baby Komodo Dragon

Memphis Zoo Welcomes Baby Komodo Dragon

Hatched in October, the baby lizard weighed just 99 grams at birth. [...]

Feds Declare S. Florida Rainbow Snake Extinct, Reward Offered To First Person With Proof Snake Is Not

Center for Biological Diversity and the Center for Snake Conservation want proof to dispute USFWS. [...]
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