Tag: Australia

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Australia’s Victorian Grassland Earless Dragon Gets More Conservation Help

Australia’s Victorian Grassland Earless Dragon Gets More Conservation Help

The introduction of feral cats and foxes contributed to the decline of Tympanocryptis pinguicolla. [...]
Black-headed Python Cannibalism Event Caught On Camera In Australia

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 [...]
Parasitic Round Worm Common In Carpet Pythons Removed From Australian Woman’s Brain

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 [...]
New Venomous Snake Species Discovered In Australia

New Venomous Snake Species Discovered In Australia

The desert whip snake (Demansia cyanochasma), is a new species of whip snake that is found in dry habitats across Australia. [...]
Long Thought Extinct Victorian Grassland Earless Dragon Rediscovered

Long Thought Extinct Victorian Grassland Earless Dragon Rediscovered

The Victorian grassland earless dragon was once abundant in their grassland habitat west of Melbourne. [...]

Extinct Giant Shingleback Skink Species Discovered In Australia

Tiliqua frangens roamed Australia during the Pleistocene, which is about 2 million years ago. [...]
Australia Snake Catcher Records Keelback Snake Dining on Invasive Cane Toad

Australia Snake Catcher Records Keelback Snake Dining on Invasive Cane Toad

Hudson Snake Catching-Gold Coast Snake Catcher in Australia captured some pretty cool footage of a keelback snake feeding on an invasive cane toad (Rh [...]
New Leaf-tailed Gecko Species Discovered in Australia

New Leaf-tailed Gecko Species Discovered in Australia

Researcher Conrad J. Hoskin of Australia's James Cook University has discovered a new leaf-tailed gecko species on Scawfell island in Queensland, Aust [...]
Contrary To Popular Belief, Snakes Can Hear Fairly Well

Contrary To Popular Belief, Snakes Can Hear Fairly Well

Snakes don't have external ears but that doesn't mean they cannot hear. In fact, a new study put out by the University of Queensland asserts that snak [...]
Two-Headed Snake Born In Australia Euthanized

Two-Headed Snake Born In Australia Euthanized

A two-headed carpet python (Morelia sp) that hatched this week in Australia has been euthanized after an examination by a veterinarian at the The Unus [...]
Toadzilla Cane Toad Found In Australia

Toadzilla Cane Toad Found In Australia

Conway National Park rangers in Australia last week removed a massive cane toad from the wild that weighed an estimated 5 lbs. The rangers were conduc [...]
Venomous Eastern Brown Snake Crawls Toward Snake Catcher In Defensive Display

Venomous Eastern Brown Snake Crawls Toward Snake Catcher In Defensive Display

The snake, once released from the confines of the snake bag, crawls toward Jake Stinson of Jake's Reptile Relocations with its head and part of its bo [...]
Red-Bellied Black Snake Gets Head Stuck In Beer Can, Saved By Aussie Snake Handler

Red-Bellied Black Snake Gets Head Stuck In Beer Can, Saved By Aussie Snake Handler

Using a pair of snips with one hand and holding the head of the venomous snake with the other, the snake catcher was able to safely remove the can fro [...]
Top 10 Venomous Snakes Of Australia

Top 10 Venomous Snakes Of Australia

If you’re visiting Australia, be careful of cattle, horses, crocodiles, and kangaroos—they, like most everything in the Land Down Under can kill you! [...]
De Vis’ Banded Snake Seen In South Australia For First Time

De Vis’ Banded Snake Seen In South Australia For First Time

The genus Denisonia is currently comprised of two species. Both are nocturnal with large eyes and vertically elliptical pupils. [...]
Aussie Woman Vacuums Up Red-Bellied Black Snake

Aussie Woman Vacuums Up Red-Bellied Black Snake

“He seems fine,” McKenzie said in the video posted to Instagram. “Probably just a bit shaken up from his little roller coaster.” [...]

Robert Irwin Removes Snake From Road Inside Australia Zoo

Robert is growing into quite the reptile handler and while his voice and mannerisms are his own, you can still see the father in the son. [...]
New Mountain Frog Species From Australia Discovered And Described

New Mountain Frog Species From Australia Discovered And Described

Philoria knowlesi is known to breed in the spring and early summer, using bogs, banks of headwater streams and seepages as breeding grounds. [...]

Six Western Swamp Tortoises Hatched At Australia’s Adelaide Zoo

Threats to the Western swamp tortoise include land clearing for agriculture, pesticide and fertilizer use, housing development and fire. [...]
Two Venomous Australian Snakes Came By Sea, Not Land

Two Venomous Australian Snakes Came By Sea, Not Land

Researchers conclude that the ancestor snake to all Australian elapids have genes that are not found in their land-based relatives. [...]
Watergum Australia Launches Cane Toad Bust

Watergum Australia Launches Cane Toad Bust

Cane toads are an invasive species in Australia with population estimates at more than 2 billion. [...]
Snakes Resort To Inbreeding As Habitats Become Fragmented And Cut Off

Snakes Resort To Inbreeding As Habitats Become Fragmented And Cut Off

A new paper out of Australia shows the dire consequences of habitat fragmentation and urbanization, as snakes that are cut off in their ecosystems ten [...]
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