Author: John Virata
Cold Blooded Critters 4-H Herpetology Youth Club Nevada Offers 2024 Calendars
The club is operated by volunteers who love reptiles and amphibians and working with children to support herpetology education. [...]
European Venomous Snake Named Germany’s Reptile of the Year
Vipera berus, also known as the common adder, is threatened in Germany due to climate change. [...]
Contaminants Ingested By Female Green Sea Turtles May Cause More Female Hatchlings
The study found that contaminants such as cobalt, lead, barium, and cadmium are found in hatchling livers and have significant effects on sex ratio an [...]
Thousands of Yellow-Spotted Amazon River Turtles Released
The incubation period of these turtles was apparently cut to 45 days due to the extreme heat. [...]
Texas Doubles Reward For Alligator Snapping Turtle Poaching Tips
Folks just need to contact the Texas’ wildlife crime-stoppers program, Operation Game Thief at (800) 792-GAME (4263) [...]
Lyon’s Grassland Striped Skink Rediscovered In Australia
All three skink species were successfully located in the wild. [...]
Australia’s Victorian Grassland Earless Dragon Gets More Conservation Help
The introduction of feral cats and foxes contributed to the decline of Tympanocryptis pinguicolla. [...]
Frogs Evolved Millions Of Years Later Than Previously Thought
The researchers created the model using hundreds of genetic markers of 5,242 frog species, and based on that data, has shifted the date in which frogs [...]
Three Florida Beaches Yield More Than 25,000 Sea Turtle Nests
The center monitors and counts sea turtle nests from March 1 to October 31 every year. [...]
Racer Snake Trapped In Fake Spider Web Saved at Florida’s Pelican Harbor Seabird Station
The snake was taken to the Pelican Harbor Seabird Station in Miami, FL, where staff worked to remove the fibers from the snake’s mouth and body. [...]
Study Suggests Frogs Of The Genus Eleutherodactylus Migrated Over Water From Caribbean to Florida
Florida retains the most complete fossil record of anurans from North America that extends from the Oligocene to the Pleistocene eras, researchers say [...]
Oregon State University Gives Large Herp Collection To University of Michigan
Most of the Oregon State University specimens belong to two groups of snakes; garter snakes and water snakes; and two groups of salamanders comprised [...]
Venomous Pitviper Species of the Trimeresurus albolabris Complex Described
The pitviper is green in coloration and sports a whitish belly and a white stripe that appears along the last row of scales before the belly. [...]
Corn Snake Missing A Year In Scotland Reunited With Owner
On October 2, the little snake was found in a residential area of Airdrie and dropped off at the Glasgow Animal Rescue and Rehoming Centre. [...]
Black-headed Python Cannibalism Event Caught On Camera In Australia
The black-headed python is found in the northern third of Australia, from east to west, including the Northern Territories, northern lattitudes of Que [...]
Fort Worth Zoo Hatches Four Gharials
The gharials were about 100 grams in weight when they hatched two months ago and are currently about 150 to 200 grams today. [...]
Josh’s Frogs Accepting Applications For Amphibian Grant Program
The public will be invited to participate in the grant program via public vote after seven grant recipients are selected. [...]
Lost Sulcata Tortoise Looking For Owner In Fontana CA
If you are the owner or may know someone who keeps a sulcata tortoise in Fontana, contact the city police department at (909) 350-7700. [...]
34 Texas Horned Lizards Released By San Antonio Zoo
The San Antonio Zoo announced that it has released 34 Texas horned lizards that were captive bred as part of the zoo’s Center for Conservation and Res [...]
World’s Amphibians Most Threatened Vertebrate Class, Study Says
Since 1980, 37 amphibian species have gone extinct, with the most recent extinctions being the the Chiriqui harlequin frog and the sharp snouted day f [...]
New Species of Legless Skink Discovered in Africa
The new species, Acontias mukwando sp. nov is closely related to A. percivali. [...]
Venomous Rinkhals Snake Species From Zimbabwe Discovered From Museum DNA
Rinkhals, or the ring-necked spitting cobra is not a true cobra of the genus Naja, but belongs to the genus Hemachatus. [...]
Two-headed Rat Snake To Celebrate Birthday At Missouri’s Shepherd of the Hills Conservation Center
The snake has grown to nearly five feet in length in those six years, and likes to eat. [...]
Wally The Alligator Denied Entry at Citizens Bank Park Was to Meet Players, Not Attend Game
Henney was not there with Wally to attend the ball game, as they were actually invited to meet with Philadelphia Phillies players prior to the start o [...]
