Author: Site Staff
Mayo Clinic Awarded $2.5 Million Grant To Study Use Of Snake Venom As Heart Treatment
Study to determine if medicine created with venom of green mamba can preserve cardiac and renal function. [...]
Dunes Sagebrush Lizard Gets Some Protections In New Mexico
State signs agreement with Fish and Wildlife Service to set aside habitat in Permian Basin. [...]
How Tadpoles Optimize Their Buoyancy
Tadpoles are well-equipped to adjust their buoyancy in the water. [...]
Scientists In India Discover Earthworm-like Amphibian
Caecilian lives entirely under the earth. [...]
U.S. House Judiciary Committee Passes H.R. 511
Resolution to ban four additional species of snakes has not yet been heard by full House of Representatives. [...]
USFWS Reopens Public Comment On Dunes Sagebrush Lizard
Comment on Sceloporus graciosus arenicolus to close March 12, 2012 [...]
Dunes Sagebrush Lizard Listing Delayed By Six Months
More studies needed to determine if Sceloporus graciosus will be listed as endangered species. [...]
New Disease Threatens Endangered Rattlesnake Population
Also reported in other free-living North American snakes. [...]
Scientists Develop A Powerful New Adhesive Inspired By Gecko’s Feet
Scientists invent ‘Geckskin’, a device capable of holding 700 pounds on a smooth wall. [...]
Colorful Lizard Discovered High In The Peruvian Andes
Potamites montanicola is believed to be semi-aquatic and nocturnal. [...]
Scent And Snake Matings Of The Red-sided Garter Snake
Estrogen hormone plays a critical role in communicating reproductive status of Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis [...]
Shieldcroc Lived Among Dinosaurs
Aegisuchus witmeri estimated at 25 to 35 feet in length had a thick skin on its forehead. [...]
U.S. Fish And Wildlife Service Holds Public Hearing On Mississippi Gopher Frog
The population or Rana sevosa is estimated at around 100 adult frogs. [...]
Bassett’s Cricket Ranch Rebounds From Cricket Virus
Company diversifies into feeder rats and mice. [...]
Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Found In Galápagos Reptiles
Reptiles close to humans increases resistance to antibiotics. [...]
Northern California Town Bans The American Bullfrog
Santa Cruz is first in U.S. to ban the sale and possession of America's largest frog. [...]
Phoenix Herpetological Society Swaps Herps With Gatorland
PHS received four crocodiles in exchange for 10 alligators and four reticulated pythons [...]
Petition To Overturn The “Python Ban” Started On White House Website
Reptile lovers can sign petition in hopes of overturning ban. [...]
Conservation International Expedition Yields Tiny
2010 survey in Suriname discovers 46 new species. [...]
Georgia To Regulate Freshwater Turtle Trade
Rules proposed in an effort to cap ownership of freshwater turtles. [...]
Evans County Georgia Ends Rattlesnake Roundups
Whigham Community Club is last Georgia club that has a rattlesnake roundup. [...]
Southern River Terrapin Released Back Into Sre Ambel River In Cambodia
Estimates point to less than 10 nesting females of Batagur affinis in Cambodia's river system. [...]
