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English Teen Falls 100 feet Off Cliff, Gets Bit by Adder and Survives
Teenager Brock Leach is surely counting his blessings after falling 100 feet off a cliff and then, on his way back up the cliff, got bit by the only v [...]
Removal of Sandstone Rock for Decorative Purposes Harms Australian Broad-headed Snake
The broad-headed snake (Hoplocephalus bungaroides), an endangered snake in Australia and once common in the suburbs of Bondi, Randwick, and Watsons Ba [...]
Plains Garter Snake Treated For Skin Cancer in Ohio
A plains garter snake (Thamnophis radix) that is part of a breeding program at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium has been successfully treated for melano [...]
Veiled Chameleon Tries To Catch Tiny Bubbles
This video showing a veiled chameleon trying to pop bubbles has gone somewhat viral on Twitter. Laura, as her keeper calls her. is perched on her keep [...]
Turtle Hospital Of Florida Releases Aaron The Loggerhead Sea Turtle
The Turtle Hospital in Marathon, Fla. has released Aaron, a sub-adult loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) that was brought to the rescue [...]
Monocled Cobra Found Dead Near Texas Hardware Store
The monocled cobra (Naja kaouthia) that was the subject of an intense snake hunt over the last few days has been found dead, apparently hit [...]
Texas Police Looking For Monocled Cobra That Apparently Killed Its Keeper
An 18-year-old man in Texas was apparently bitten and killed by a monocled cobra (Naja kaouthia) July 14 and police are looking for the venomous snake [...]
New Fossil Details Heavily Winged Raptor
Scientists in China have announced that a new species of feathered dinosaur discovered by a farmer has wings that are very well preserved, leading the [...]
More Than 4,000 Critically Endangered Palawan Forest Turtles Rescued In The Philippines
Conservationists in the Philippines rescued 3,831 Palawan forest turtles (Siebenrockiella leytensis), 160 Asian leaf turtles (Cyclemys dentata) and 25 [...]
San Francisco Zoo’s Baron’s Racer Found
The Baron’s racer (Philodryas Baroni) snake that “disappeared” from its enclosure July 12 at the San Francisco Zoo’s newly ope [...]
2016 Python Challenge Slated For Florida
In 2013 the state of Florida held a Burmese python (Python molurus bivittatus) hunt that netted 68 snakes from 1,600 hunters. The event&rsqu [...]
Florida Man Cited For Possessing Two Hatchling Loggerhead Sea Turtles
Hatchling sea turtles are cute and all but trying to keep them in a fish tank is not cool. That is the story coming out of the Florida Fish and W [...]
The Snake Farm And Dusit Zoo In Bangkok, Thailand
Editor's Note: Bangkok, Thailand is home to a huge number of reptiles and has numerous zoos for residents and tourists to see the animals up close [...]
Restoration Of Yellow-Legged Frog In Yosemite Could Take 10 Years
How many years will it take to restore the populations of the endangered yellow-legged frogs back into the Yosemite Valley? According to National Park [...]
Baron’s Racer Missing From New Exhibit at San Francisco Zoo
The San Francisco Zoo opened a new exhibit over the weekend, the South American Tropical Rainforest Exhibit, but the zoo is missing one of its inhabit [...]
GoPro Sea Turtle Footage Of The Great Barrier Reef
The World Wildlife Fund-Australia and GoPro attached a GoPro video camera onto the shell of a green sea turtle in an effort to find out how pollution [...]
Real Estate Agent Who Sold “Snake Infested” Home Files Motion to Dismiss Lawsuit
Do you remember the couple who purchased a home in Annapolis, MD only to find more than 12 snakes living in it and later filed a $2 million lawsu [...]
Snake Makes Escape via Telephone Wire
If you happen to go outside and look up, you might expect to see a few birds hanging out on the telephone wire. For residents of a neighborhood in Ang [...]
Tortoise Serves As Therapy Pet At Senior Care Facility
About two years ago, a tortoise was found on the roadside. It has been speculated that he was someone’s pet and was abandoned and that he’ [...]
Snakes Make The Perfect Comic Characters
If you were to pick up a newspaper and look at the comics section, chances are you’ll find a bunch of cartoon depictions of people, cats and dog [...]
Snake Devours A Bat At Australian Home
A carpet python feasted on a bat in the backyard of Mille Stoevring and Shane Turner in Sunrise Beach, a suburb of Noosa in Queensland, Australia. The [...]
How Did Turtles Get Their Shells?
How did the turtle get its shell? That has been an age old question for decades, but now researchers have discovered the fossilized remains of what th [...]
Watch This Treefrog Light Up After It Ate A Firefly
For those of you who’ve seen this its probably not too exciting but for those of us who haven’t, well, it is pretty cool.
Ter [...]
San Diego Zoo’s Galapagos Tortoise, Speed, Dies At 150+Years
One of the oldest Galapagos tortoises (Chelonoidis nigra) in captivity has died. Speed, who was brought to the San Diego Zoo in 1933 was es [...]
