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New snail-eating snakes from Ecuador
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Photographs of some species of Dipsas in life: a D. andiana MZUTI 5413 from Bilsa, province of Esmeraldas, Ecuador b D. andiana from Mindo, province of Pichincha, Ecuador c D. bobridgelyi MZUTI 5414 from Buenaventura, Province of El Oro, Ecuador d D. catesbyi from Gareno, province of Napo, Ecuador e D. catesbyi from Gareno, province of Napo, Ecuador…
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Alligator rescued from python
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A Florida man rescued an alligator from a python’s death grip in the Everglades this past weekend, and it was all caught on video.Jack Hubbard of Lakeland posted the gator-python video on his Facebook page. He said he went to Everglades Wildlife Management Area 3A this past weekend to meet up with python hunter Mike…
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Woman killed and eaten by a Reticulated Python
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Reticulated Pythons, Malayopython reticulatus, are the longest snakes on the planet. They are power predators and do kill and eat humans on occasion. The snake pictured above is a captive animal in the collection of TC. Note this post contains graphic photos of a human killed and eaten by a snake Today, Friday 15 June 2018 Location…
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Reptile populations in decline
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The Living Planet Index (LPI) is a measure of the state of the world’s biological diversity based on population trends of vertebrate species from terrestrial, freshwater and marine habitats. The LPI has been adopted by the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD) as an indicator of progress towards its 2011-2020 target to ‘take effective and urgent…
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Oldest known lizard
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A team of international scientists, including paleontologists from Bristol University, Midwestern University (Arizona) and the University of Alberta, have described the world’s oldest known lizard fossil, permitting fresh insight into the evolution of extant snakes and lizards, the Squamata. Writing in the journal Nature, the researchers, including co-author Dr Massimo Bernardi from MUSE – Science…
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Indian Egg-eating Snake – is not related to African Egg-Eating snakes
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Two genera of colubroid snakes are known to swallow eggs whole, slit the shell, swallow the contents of the egg, and spit out the remains of the shell. In Africa, there are 13 species of egg-eating snakes of the Genus Dasypeltis. In India, there is one species in the genus Elachistodon, the Indian Egg-eater, Elachistodon…
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China’s Giant Salamanders are gone from the wild
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The Chinese Giant Salamander, Andrias davidianus (Blanchard, 1871), is the largest amphibians living today and may exceed more than one metre in length. It is widespread in central, south-western and southern China, although its range is now very fragmented. It occurs from 100–1,500 m ASL. Old records of the species in Taiwan may be the…
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Calling all hunters: Everglades National Park wants you to kill its Burmese pythons
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The following story is from the Miami Herald. BY JENNY STALETOVICHjstaletovich@miamiherald.comUpdated May 31, 2018 04:24 PMFaced with an unrelenting spread of invasive Burmese pythons that have mostly wiped out marsh rabbits, bobcats and other small mammals, Everglades National Park is doing something for the first time in its 70-year history: opening park borders to paid…
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