Author: John Virata

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Male Orange-eyed Treefrogs Trill To Other Males During Mating Season

Male Orange-eyed Treefrogs Trill To Other Males During Mating Season

Unlike most other frogs that call out to females, Litoria chloris calls out males. [...]
Reticulated Python From Kansas City, MO Is World’s Longest Snake

Reticulated Python From Kansas City, MO Is World’s Longest Snake

Guinness World Record snake named Medusa measures 25 feet, 2 inches and weighs 350 pounds [...]
Mountain Yellow-Legged Frogs Breeding Again In California's San Gabriel Mountains

Mountain Yellow-Legged Frogs Breeding Again In California's San Gabriel Mountains

U.S.G.S. biologists discover 19 new adult Rana muscosa frogs among 71 frogs and hundreds of tadpoles in a Mojave River pool of water. [...]
New Reptile Walk Opens At San Diego Zoo

New Reptile Walk Opens At San Diego Zoo

More than 50 species on display at Reptile Walk, including two critically endangered female Chinese alligators. [...]
Captured Philippine Saltwater Crocodile Is Largest In Captivity

Captured Philippine Saltwater Crocodile Is Largest In Captivity

The massive Crocodylus porosus captured last year measures more than 20 feet long and weighs more than one ton. [...]
Tokay Geckos Self Clean Their Feet To Keep Them Sticky

Tokay Geckos Self Clean Their Feet To Keep Them Sticky

Study points to hundreds of hairs called setae that give Gekko gecko its grip. [...]
Proboscis Anole Rediscovered In Ecuador

Proboscis Anole Rediscovered In Ecuador

Camouflage could be reason why Anolis proboscis hasn't been seen in the wild since the 1960s. [...]
Five Smuggled Sailfin Dragons Returned To The Philippines

Five Smuggled Sailfin Dragons Returned To The Philippines

Hong Kong officials convict man of smuggling, return lizards and 31 turtles. [...]
National Endangered Species Day Youth Art Contest Winners Chosen

National Endangered Species Day Youth Art Contest Winners Chosen

The artwork of the semifinalists will be exhibited at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art/University of New Orleans. [...]

Desert Tortoise Habitat Opens In El Mirage, California

Friends of El Mirage to educate off highway vehicle riders who ride at El Mirage [...]
New LAIR At Los Angeles Zoo Features Herps And Invertebrates From Around The World

New LAIR At Los Angeles Zoo Features Herps And Invertebrates From Around The World

Five years in the making, the Living Amphibians, Invertebrates, and Reptiles exhibit has more than 60 species. [...]
Chinese Sea Turtle Poachers Await Trial On Philippine Island

Chinese Sea Turtle Poachers Await Trial On Philippine Island

Demand for sea turtle soup in China sends its turtle poachers to Palawan. [...]
Leatherback Sea Turtles Get Sanctuary On The U.S. West Coast

Leatherback Sea Turtles Get Sanctuary On The U.S. West Coast

Approximately 42,000 square miles of ocean designated to protect Dermochelys coriacea. [...]
Extinct Floreana Island Galapagos Tortoise Reappears

Extinct Floreana Island Galapagos Tortoise Reappears

Chelonoidis elephantopus, extinct on its home island has been breeding with Chelonoidis becki on Isabela Island [...]
Frisco Mayor Vetoes Sharp Park Legislation

Frisco Mayor Vetoes Sharp Park Legislation

Park is home to golf course, California red-legged frog and San Francisco garter snake. [...]
Managed Cattle Grazing In N. California Helps Blunt-nosed Leopard Lizard

Managed Cattle Grazing In N. California Helps Blunt-nosed Leopard Lizard

A rare relationship between rancher and Gambelia sila results in a well fed cow and a swift lizard. [...]
Snake Venom Pioneer Bill Haast Dead At 100

Snake Venom Pioneer Bill Haast Dead At 100

Haast was first bitten by a venomous snake at 11 years old [...]
Nine Foot Boa Constrictor Captured By Pig Hunters In Hawaii

Nine Foot Boa Constrictor Captured By Pig Hunters In Hawaii

A group of hunters out for a 4th of July hunt targeting pigs near O'ahu, Hawaii's Waiawa Correctional Facility in Honolulu captured a boa constrictor [...]
Texas Herper Jeremy Weaver Releases TX Snakes 1.1 For IOS

Texas Herper Jeremy Weaver Releases TX Snakes 1.1 For IOS

Snake ID Application Helps in Identifying the Many Snakes of the Lone Star State [...]
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