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    Marine Iguanas In Danger On Galapagos, Study says.

    The marine iguanas on the Galapagos Islands lived without predators for a very long time. But when humans arrive 150 years ago, they brought with them cats and dogs which are occasionally biting the iguanas. Still, these animals remained excessively tamed. With the explosion of the number of...
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    More species of lizards found in Karori Wildlife Sanctuary

    More species of lizards found in Karori Wildlife Sanctuary Two species of lizard have been recently detected in Karori Wildlife Sanctuary bringing the total number of lizard species present in the Sanctuary to six. Richard Romijn, Royal Society of New Zealand Research Scholarship recipient, has...
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    Record Matching Gecko Found (Sphaerodactylus)

    A new species of lizard is rivalling the smallest known reptile for a place in the Guinness Book of Records. Its adult length is only about 1.6 centimetres, less than the width of a five-pence piece, and it weighs less than a fifth of a gramme. "It was a surprise to find something that small,"...
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    Snakes Used to Predict Earthquakes

    China has come up with an earthquake prediction system which relies on the behaviour of snakes, state media said on Thursday, two days after two quakes struck off neighbouring Taiwan. The earthquake bureau in Nanning, capital of the Guangxi autonomous region in southern China, had developed its...
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    Cv bogerti help needed

    Hi all I am having problems raising F1 Cv bogerti. I just can't raise these things to adulthood! I do fine with Cvv and Cvu. Any tips?
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    Cyrto ID?

    Can any of you help this guy out? Might even be Geckoella.. idk, not really my thing. http://www.naturemalaysia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=81
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    A macro moth : playing with the ring flash

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    Attenborough meets Burra burrower

    The world’s most famous naturalist Sir David Attenborough says Australia will be the first continents to lose its rare wildlife and vegetation to increased global warming. Sir David made the claims while in the South Australian town of Burra where he is shooting a new documentary. He believes...
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    A human taste for rarity spells disaster... (Goniurosaurus)

    The shady pursuit of endangered bird eggs made international headlines in May 2006 when Colin Watson, widely considered Britain's most notorious illegal egg collector, died after falling from a 12-meter tree, allegedly while hunting a rare egg. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds...
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    New reptile population for Hauraki Gulf islands (Hoplodac..)

    New reptile population for Hauraki Gulf islands A team of Massey University biologists is relocating more than 60 of the relatively rare Duvaucel’s geckos to Motuora and Tiritiri Matangi islands in the Hauraki Gulf. The transfer, along with that of a group of skinks, is aimed at helping protect...
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    Two New Lizard Species Found in Vietnam (Cyrtodactylus)

    Two new lizard species found in Vietnam 13:09' 26/12/2006 (GMT+7) VietNamNet Bridge – A Vietnamese biologist has recently discovered two new lizard species in Ba Den mountain, Tay Ninh province. They are of the Gekkonidae, Cyrtodactylus family. Two new species of lizards recently found...
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    Unknown Species of Lizard Discovered in Borneo

    Unknown species of lizard discovered in Borneo Rhett Butler, mongabay.com December 11, 2006 A previously unknown species of lizard was discovered in Borneo by Chris Austin, assistant curator of herpetology at Louisiana State University's Museum of Natural Science. The scientific name of the...
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    Female Gecko Simulates Sex, Breeds alone

    The survival of at least one species does not depend on men. The female Mourning Gecko has found a way to simulate sex and produce eggs, rendering her male counterpart redundant. But the feminist revolution comes with a price. The invading reptiles from Asia are reproducing at an alarming...
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    Female Race of Geckos Invade Australia

    In the Northern Territory of Australia, Darwin’s suburbs are being invaded by an introduced species of Gecko which is totally female. NT Minister for the Environment, Marion Scrymgour, said it was disquieting to find the Mourning Gecko in a Darwin suburb, because another introduced gecko, the...
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    Tiger Salamanders Terminated

    NEWS RELEASE The Center for North American Herpetology Lawrence, Kansas http://www.cnah.org 27 December 2006 TIGER SALAMANDERS TERMINATED An account of the demise of the Eastern Tiger Salamander in Maryland, outlining the neglect of that state's DNR, entitled "Those rare and endangered...
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    Forked Tongues Rule

    Forked Tongues Rule At a pristine park in Indonesia, protected Komodo dragons frolic by the sea. Humans live in squalor, in a life called poverty. By Richard C. Paddock, Times Staff Writer July 5, 2006 Apparently thriving Struggling to survive KOMODO, Indonesia — Mohammed Sidik used to...
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    Iguana Invasion

    An iguana invasion: What to do? Overrun with the black spiny-tailed variety, residents of Florida's Gasparilla Island debate reptilian rights. By Patrik Jonsson BOCA GRANDE, FLA. – What turned a sleepy island retreat for millionaires and billionaires into a palm-shaded battleground where...
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    Variation in Nocturnal and Diurnal Coloration

    Just thought this was kind of neat. The first two almost turn pink! They are all hatchlings. The first image is the one during the day, and the second is the one during the night.
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    Gecko at Anza Borrego

    Found on the main hwy through the park. Only herp seen on trip.
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    a few pics of this years offspring

    5 in total, 3 bloodlines. Here are the best 2. Pardon the blurryness. Still trying to figure out this new camera! It has "selective focusing disorder". lol
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