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Japanese Monkeys Use Snake Scales To Detect Snakes Rapidly

Japanese Monkeys Use Snake Scales To Detect Snakes Rapidly

"The monkeys did not react faster to salamanders, a species that shares a similar elongated body and tail with snakes, until the images were changed t [...]
Echoes of Rain: How mimicking rainfall and thunder caused Asian giant tortoises to lay eggs

Echoes of Rain: How mimicking rainfall and thunder caused Asian giant tortoises to lay eggs

Asian giant tortoises (Manouria emys phayrei), also known as the Asian forest tortoise, were once abundant throughout Northeast India but are now rare [...]
Snake Education In Your Neighborhood

Snake Education In Your Neighborhood

Over the last few years, real estate development has grown around my neighborhood like a rabid fungus. It has displaced wildlife from their natural ho [...]
Texas Library Retires Rocksssanne The Ball Python Host After 25 Years

Texas Library Retires Rocksssanne The Ball Python Host After 25 Years

The library wanted a pet that would be conducive to the library but without things such as pet dander and other allergens. Rocksssanne fit the bill. [...]
Four Unbelievably Adapted Salamanders

Four Unbelievably Adapted Salamanders

Salamanders are some of the most diverse creatures on the planet. Being densely populated in North America's Appalachian Mountains, they are also foun [...]
Three New Oman Cliff Racer Species Described

Three New Oman Cliff Racer Species Described

The cliff racers had been studied in the late 1800s and into the mid-1900s, but have not been studied as of late and have not benefited from state of [...]
The Fisherman And the Frog Book Inspired By Viral Photo Posted to REPTILES Facebook Page

The Fisherman And the Frog Book Inspired By Viral Photo Posted to REPTILES Facebook Page

The book is based on Angus James' true to life story of capturing a jungle perch that had a live frog in its gullet. [...]
Sex Determination in African Clawed Frogs Discovered

Sex Determination in African Clawed Frogs Discovered

African clawed frogs are quite possibly the most studied amphibian. [...]
Thief Steals Ball Python From Pet Store Comes Back And Gets Arrested

Thief Steals Ball Python From Pet Store Comes Back And Gets Arrested

The stolen python was found at the alleged thief’s house and returned unharmed to Exotic ARC. [...]
Research Shows Ecological Factors That Shaped How Snake And Lizard Jaws Evolved

Research Shows Ecological Factors That Shaped How Snake And Lizard Jaws Evolved

The researchers found that the lower jaw of snakes and lizards are a major element in their ecological experimentation and adaptation that work togeth [...]
USARK ALERT Ashley, OH Ban On All Exotic Animals

USARK ALERT Ashley, OH Ban On All Exotic Animals

This would ban almost all animal species, including fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians, small mammals, and any animal that is not native to Ohio [...]
Video: King Cobra Devours Smaller King Cobra In Singapore

Video: King Cobra Devours Smaller King Cobra In Singapore

The king cobra is known as a snake eater, hence the scientific name Ophiophagus (Greek for snake eating) and feeds almost exclusively on other snakes. [...]
Eastern Box Turtle Gets Her Shell Repaired With Horse Placenta

Eastern Box Turtle Gets Her Shell Repaired With Horse Placenta

The use of equine placenta speeds up the healing of her shell, enabling her to be released much sooner. [...]
World’s Oldest Modern-Type Lizard, Cryptovaranoides microlanius Is Actually The World’s Oldest, New Study Says

World’s Oldest Modern-Type Lizard, Cryptovaranoides microlanius Is Actually The World’s Oldest, New Study Says

"We ran the analysis time after time, and it gave our original result, that the little Bristol reptile is indeed the world's oldest modern-type lizard [...]
Florida Woman Records Alligator With Massive Burmese Python In Its Mouth

Florida Woman Records Alligator With Massive Burmese Python In Its Mouth

The alligator, who is known as Godzilla, was recorded Thanksgiving morning with the massive python that was significantly larger than him. [...]
More Than 900 Trafficked Tortoises Returned To Madagascar

More Than 900 Trafficked Tortoises Returned To Madagascar

Six suspects were arrested and have been charged with endangered animal trafficking. They could face up to 15 years in prison and fined 1.5 million ba [...]
World’s Largest Worm Lizard That Resembles Sandworm from Dune Discovered In Tunisia

World’s Largest Worm Lizard That Resembles Sandworm from Dune Discovered In Tunisia

"Visually, you can imagine the animal as a ‘sandworm’ from the ‘Dune’ science fiction novels and their movie adaptation." [...]
Field Herping Yasuni National Park, Ecuador

Field Herping Yasuni National Park, Ecuador

In contrast to the anaconda and caiman, some of the most interesting herps in this region are also the smallest. [...]
Gopher Snake Found In Christmas Tree Shipment In Hawaii

Gopher Snake Found In Christmas Tree Shipment In Hawaii

Keeping snakes is illegal in the state and possession or transporting illegal animals is a class C felony in the state. [...]
Indian Spiny-tailed Lizard Under Threat From Poaching

Indian Spiny-tailed Lizard Under Threat From Poaching

The major threat to this species is its hunting for illegal trade driven by the belief that the oil extracted from its tail is a cure for impotency an [...]
USARK ALERT: Florence, SC Proposes Ban On Many Species With No Grandfather Clause

USARK ALERT: Florence, SC Proposes Ban On Many Species With No Grandfather Clause

This proposal results from a venomous snake bite from a free-handler (someone who freely handles venomous snakes without proper tools and equipment.) [...]
Renal Disease in Reptiles and Amphibians

Renal Disease in Reptiles and Amphibians

Through the publication of my research paper on gout in Odatria, I’ve read and learned a lot about herptile urology, or the study of the urinary tract [...]
6 Eyelash Pit Vipers Born at Dallas Zoo

6 Eyelash Pit Vipers Born at Dallas Zoo

The zoo has had 13 successful eyelash pit viper births since 1980, with the last being in 2014. [...]
New Gecko Species Of The Genus Pseudogonatodes Discovered In Venezuela

New Gecko Species Of The Genus Pseudogonatodes Discovered In Venezuela

While specimens were collected in 2002 and 2014 in evergreen forests of the country’s Paria Peninsula in northeastern Venezuela, it wasn’t until Octob [...]
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