Author: John Virata

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Hawaiian Skink Declared Extinct

Hawaiian Skink Declared Extinct

Emoia impar hasn't been documented in Hawaii since the 1960s. [...]
Cottonwood Hts. Council Grants Permits For Resident's Boa Constrictor Collection

Cottonwood Hts. Council Grants Permits For Resident's Boa Constrictor Collection

Residents demanded that the council revoke any exotic animal permits granted to Thomas Cobb. [...]
Importation Of African Clawed Frogs To The US Also Brought The Chytrid Fungus

Importation Of African Clawed Frogs To The US Also Brought The Chytrid Fungus

Xenopus laevis, used in pregnancy testing in the 1960s-70s were released into the wild. [...]
New Species Of Palm Pit Viper From Honduras Discovered And Described

New Species Of Palm Pit Viper From Honduras Discovered And Described

Bothriechis guifarroi was named after slain Honduran environmentalist Mario Guifarro. [...]
Rapid City, SD Reptile Gardens Hosts Mother's Day With 12-Foot Edible Burmese Python Snake Cake

Rapid City, SD Reptile Gardens Hosts Mother's Day With 12-Foot Edible Burmese Python Snake Cake

Area restaurant and bakery Dakota Thyme Builds a 12-foot, 70 pound Burmese python snake cake [...]
Hobart Muir Smith, Titan In American Herpetology Dies At 100

Hobart Muir Smith, Titan In American Herpetology Dies At 100

During a more than 75 year career, Smith wrote more than 1,600 publications on herpetology. [...]
Butler's Garter Snake To Be Removed From Wisconsin's List Of Endangered Or Threatened Species

Butler's Garter Snake To Be Removed From Wisconsin's List Of Endangered Or Threatened Species

First listed in 1997, DNR says that Thamnophis butleri has sufficient population numbers to warrant removal. [...]
California's Island Night Lizard Makes Comeback

California's Island Night Lizard Makes Comeback

After more than 35 years, USFWS proposes removal of Xantusia riversiana from Endangered Species List. [...]
Python Challenge Update: 27 Pythons Captured

Python Challenge Update: 27 Pythons Captured

Florida Senator Bill Nelson joins hunt for Burmese pythons. [...]
Residents On Oahu, Hawaii Urged To Listen And Report Coqui Frog Calls The Evening Of Sept. 12

Residents On Oahu, Hawaii Urged To Listen And Report Coqui Frog Calls The Evening Of Sept. 12

The invasive Coqui frog (Eleutherdactylus coqui), has been making its way onto Oahu over the last 10 years. [...]
Florida Fish And Wildlife Announces 2013 Python Challenge

Florida Fish And Wildlife Announces 2013 Python Challenge

Challenge aims to educate public about the impact the Burmese python has on the Everglades. [...]
Louisiana Proposes Endangered Status For Mississippi Gopher Frog

Louisiana Proposes Endangered Status For Mississippi Gopher Frog

Wildlife and Fisheries Commission also proposes permit system for taking or killing Eastern Diamondback rattler and two species of pine snake. [...]
Some Drivers Deliberately Run Over Turtles, Study Shows

Some Drivers Deliberately Run Over Turtles, Study Shows

Clemson University student set out to count number of drivers who swerve to hit a rubber turtle. [...]

USFWS To Develop Recovery Plan For The California Tiger Salamander

Recovery plans will be in place for all three populations of Ambystoma californiense by June 2017. [...]
5 Chinese Yellow-Headed Box Turtles Hatch At The WCS’s Bronx Zoo

5 Chinese Yellow-Headed Box Turtles Hatch At The WCS’s Bronx Zoo

The hatching of Cuora aurocapitata marks the first time these turtles have hatched in a captive breeding program [...]

U.S. Military Doctors Rely On Iranian Snake Antivenin When Soldiers Are Bit In Afghanistan

Iran's Razi antivenin is the preferred therapy when soldiers are bitten by venomous Afghan snakes [...]
Sea Turtle Bycatch Reduced Over Last 20 Years, Report Says

Sea Turtle Bycatch Reduced Over Last 20 Years, Report Says

While sea turtle deaths have been reduced, researchers say more needs to be done [...]
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