Author: John Virata
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 Pit Viper 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. [...]
High School Students In Arkansas Hatch Out Four Louisiana Pine Snakes
The four snakes will remain on campus as they are not candidates for release into the wild. [...]
Arizona’s Yarrow’s Spiny Lizard Faces Extinction Due To Climate Change, Study Says
The lizards at the lower elevations could not tolerate the increasing heat, which the researchers say is a signature pattern of climate change. [...]
Herpetologist Records Failed Natrix maura Snake Predation Event of Invasive Fish Species
Without intervention, the viperine water snake would probably have choked on the invasive fish and died. [...]
Gans’ Egg-Eating Snake Can Eat Prey Twice That Of Burmese Python Relative To Size And Mass
Of the 13 snake species with known gape, the Gans' egg-eating snake had the greatest gape. The Burmese python and the western diamondback rattlesnake [...]
New Venomous Keelback Snake Species Discovered in Vietnam
The snake is named the H’mong keelback snake (Rhabdophis hmongorum) in honor of the H'mong people. [...]
Psychedelic Rock Gecko, Other Reptiles Native To Vietnam Need Protections, Study Says
The study, which draws largely on the bachelor thesis of Lilli Steiger of the University of Cologne in Germany, has recommended that Vietnam adopt the [...]
Snake Road Closes in Illinois For Annual Herp Migration
The state's forest service began closing the road in the early 1970s to let these reptiles and amphibians safely cross without the threat of vehicular [...]
Parasitic Round Worm Common In Carpet Pythons Removed From Australian Woman’s Brain
The researchers believe that the woman, age 64, inadvertently consumed the eggs of Ophidascaris robertsi directly from the vegetation, or indirectly v [...]
Researchers Can Detect Nuclear Events In Scutes Of Turtles and Tortoises
In all of the scute samples except that from the control animal, the Sonoran desert tortoise, uranium (235U and 236U) were detected. [...]
