Within 48 to 72 hours after swallowing its prey, pythons show intense increases in metabolism — up to 44-fold — and rapid growth of organs, including a 40 percent increase in its heart size. Read more….
Conservation International reports that biodiversity hotspots hold high numbers of endemic species, but their combined area of remaining habitat cover only 2.3% of the Earth’s land surface. Read more….
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Snake Captured on Oahu, Ferret Found in Hilo. Read more…..
Federal regulators designated nearly 42,000 square miles of ocean along the West Coast as critical habitat for the Pacific leatherback turtle. Read more….
The mating habits of marine turtle may help protect them against the effects of climate change, according to new research led by the University of Exetar. Read more….
An excavation at a site in South Africa has unearthed the 190-million-year-old dinosaur nesting site of the prosauropod dinosaur Massospondylus. Read more….
The Evans County Wildlife Club is replacing its annual rattlesnake roundup with the Claxton Rattlesnake and Wildlife Festival, which will feature displays of the imperiled eastern diamondback rattlesnake and other native wildlife. Read more….
A 49-year-old man bitten and seriously envenomed by D. russelii in 2005 was treated with antivenom, recovered from the acute effects but remained unwell. Read more….
USARK response to the federal ruling (pythons). View…..
The “Blotched Mud” morph is a double homozygote (Newport X Long Beach hypermelanistic). Read more….
Alterna-morph snakes predominate in the western, more arid part of the range, while blairi-morph individuals are characteristic of the more humid eastern segment. Read more….
