Category: Big Boxes
Researchers Discover Hermaphroditic Frog In New Guinea
The frogs, Cophixalus rajampatensis and Cophixalus salawatiensis have slender bodies less than 23mm in length. [...]
South Carolina Utility Crew Accidentally Runs Over Boa Constrictor
The snake was probably someone's pet that got loose. [...]
Horned Frogs Have Tongues That Are Strong Like Adhesive Tape
The horned frog's super sticky tongue helps it to subdue large prey items. [...]
USFWS Proposes Protections For Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake
Eastern Massasauga rattlesnake populations have declined due to wetlands draining and disease. [...]
Mealworms Can Eat Styrofoam With No Apparent Ill Effects
The researchers fed a strict diet of styrofoam to mealworms from birth to adulthood. [...]
Chinese Hold a Food Festival With An Endangered Species As The Main Course
Chinese giant salamanders are protected but farmed salamanders are what government officials claim are used for human consumption. [...]
Florida Woman Looking For Flea Market Bargains Finds An 8-Foot Burmese Python
A Burmese python was found amongst some clothing at a flea market in Florida. [...]
Kansas Family Finds Ball Python In Toilet
Have you ever found a reptile after a move to a new place to live? [...]
Single Coqui Frog Captured On The Windward Side Of Oahu, HI
The coqui frog is established on the Big Island of Hawaii but is not yet established on Oahu. [...]
Wild Copperhead Snake Bites Child at Alabama Zoo
The snake was not part of an exhibit at the Birmingham Zoo. [...]
3-Year Old Girl Finds Two-Headed Ringneck Snake While Exploring in Her Backyard
The ringneck snake is common throughout much of North America [...]
Three Australian Frog Species Officially Extinct
The Kuranda treefrog has been upgraded to endangered from near-threatened. [...]
Lawsuit Regarding the “Snake Infested” Maryland House to Commence
Mediation as required by the sales contract failed to resolve the dispute. [...]
Yellow-Bellied Water Snake Gives Birth via Parthenogenesis
The snake succesfully gave birth two a pair 2014. The current offspring did not survive. [...]
Cascade And Columbia Torrent Salamanders May Get Endangered Species Act Protection
The next step is for the USFWS to conduct a full status review of the Cascade and Columbia torrent salamanders. [...]
Tourists Disrupt Sea Turtle Nestings In Costa Rica
Costa Rican Govt. upset that tourists disrupted sea turtle nesting with selfies and other bad behavior. [...]
Bindi Irwin Honors Her Dad Steve With The Best Performance On Dancing With The Stars
Bindi danced to Elton John's Crocodile Rock and awed the judges. [...]
Video Shows How Glass Frog Expels Wasps Off Its Egg Clutch
The little ninja frog has an effective way of ridding his nest of wasps [...]
Spider-tailed Horned Viper Uses Spider-Like Tail To Capture Birds
The spider-tailed horned viper (Pseudocerastes urarachnoides) is unique among snakes in that it has a tail that mimics a spider to attract its prey, p [...]
Snake Infested Maryland House Lawsuit Postponed
Judge has not recused himself but may do so. [...]
Two Non-Native Chinese Soft-Shelled Turtles Spotted South of Boston
The species is nearly extinct in the wild, but is mass farmed for the food industry in China. [...]
The Creatives Who Cut The Lincoln MKX Commercial Must Love Beardies
A bearded dragon makes cameo in Matthew McConaughey's Lincoln poker run. [...]
Indian Farmer Survives Bite On His Penis From Levantine Viper
Also known as the blunt-nosed viper, the Levantine viper can grow to more than six feet in length. [...]
Antivenin For Black Mamba, Other African Venomous Snakes Set To Run Out In 2016
The antivenin Fav-Afrique is proven to counteract snakebites from the venomous snakes in sub-Saharan Africa [...]
