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I AM DEAD SNAKE (Hilarious Voiceover!)
A harmless hog nose snake takes playing dead to dramatic heights!
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Tetrodotoxin-resistant snakes
Garter snakes can consume amazingly toxic prey. This article is a fascinating insight into this harmless,charming little snakes diet.
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There’s a Venom For That
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Over 21% of reptile species at risk of extinction
At least one in five reptile species are threatened with extinction, including more than half of turtles and crocodiles, according to the first major global assessment of the world's so-called cold-blooded creatures.
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Do reptiles have emotions?
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Why Snakes and Clowns Are Creepy, but Bears Are Not.
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New Zealand Scientists Want To Regulate Cats After One Regurgitated 28 Lizards - Reptiles Magazine
It is estimated that there are 2.5 million feral cats in New Zealand.
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How snake oil got a bad name
Snake oil, rich in omega-3 fatty acids, was a go-to medicine for many ailments.
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Nature: Rattlesnakes' sound 'trick' fools human ears
Rattlesnakes have evolved a clever method of convincing humans that danger is closer than you think.
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Snakes: Scaly, Serpentine Sensations!
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Invasive Reptiles Are Taking Over Florida—and Devouring Its Birds Along the Way
Birds like Roseate Spoonbills and Burrowing Owls are ending up in the stomachs of hungry pythons and Nile monitors. Is it too late to stop them?
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BBC - Life In Cold Blood | The Cold Blooded Truth
Narrated by David Attenborough.
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A new chameleon species may be the world’s tiniest reptile
The newly described critters, found in the northern forests of Madagascar may be threatened by deforestation.
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Scientists Have Described a Dinosaur's Butthole in Exquisite Detail
When a dog-sized Psittacosaurus was living out its days on Earth, it was probably concerned with mating, eating, and not being killed by other dinosaurs. It would never even have crossed its mind that, 120 million or so years later, scientists would
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We Finally Know What a Dinosaur’s Butthole Looks Like
For the entirety of my career as a journalist covering paleontology, I’ve been wanting to know: What does a dinosaur’s butthole look like? When I wrote My Beloved Brontosaurus, a book about dinosaur biology, the chapter on reproduction required a lot of time imagining the nature of a Jurassic behind; one had yet to be found preserved. Even dinosaur models and sculptures often demur on the point of the dino butt, leaving the terrible lizards with terrible constipation.
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Chicken, The Best Pet Dinosaur?
This is a delightful video and those who have chickens will especially enjoy it.
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Constipated lizard tips scales with record-breaking poop
A super-constipated Florida reptile has broken the record for the largest mass of feces ever discovered in a living animal — relative to its size, that is. The chunky curly-tailed lizard had been feasting on a steady diet of pizza grease, sand and insects, clogging her innards with a T-Rex-sized turd, according to a report published in the Herpetological Review journal.
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Hurricanes Make Lizards Evolve Bigger Toe Pads
Lizards with bigger, grippier toe pads are more likely to survive after their islands are hit by hurricanes. Big toe pads may help the lizards that have them hang on for dear life and survive the high winds of a hurricane. These sticky-toed survivors will then be the ones to successfully reproduce and pass on their genes, giving rise to a new generation of lizards with a vice-like grip, according to a new paper published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Thousands of baby turtles released into sea off Bali
More than 10,000 baby turtles were released into the sea off the Indonesian island of Bali, as part of conservationists’ attempts to boost the population of a vulnerable species and promote environmental protection. Conservation groups carried crates each full of dozens of tiny turtles to the island’s Gianyar beach on Friday and encouraged local people and volunteers to line up on the sand and release the hatchlings together.
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Rare yellow turtle discovered in India
A farmer in eastern India has found a yellow turtle which experts say is the product of albinism. Basudev Mahapatra spotted the turtle while he was working in his fields in the village of Sujanpur, in Odisha's Balasore district, and decided to bring it home, forest official Susanta Nanda told CNN on Tuesday.
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