<![CDATA[reptiles news from mongabay.com]]> http://www.mongabay.com en-us Copyright 2006 mongabay.com Sun, 15 Oct 2008 12:58:39 -0800 <![CDATA[Photo: commonly-kept gecko was thought to be extinct in the wild]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0904-kihansi_spray_toad.html Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0904-kihansi_spray_toad.html <![CDATA[Komodo dragon conservation efforts prove controversial in Indonesia]]> Wall Street Journal.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0825-komodo_dragons.html Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0825-komodo_dragons.html <![CDATA[Photo: World's oldest Fly River Turtle turns 50]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0731-wcs_fly_turtle.html Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0731-wcs_fly_turtle.html <![CDATA[Cane toads are killing crocodiles in Australia]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0730-hance_crocs_vs_toads.html Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0730-hance_crocs_vs_toads.html <![CDATA[Volunteering with Leatherback Sea Turtles in Galibi, Suriname]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0708-hance_galibi.html Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0708-hance_galibi.html <![CDATA[Chameleon has shortest life span of any four-legged animal]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0630-chameleon.html Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0630-chameleon.html <![CDATA[Marauding kangaroos may drive extinction of earless dragons in Australia]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0521-kangaroos.html Wed, 21 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0521-kangaroos.html <![CDATA[Geriatric turtle sex only hope for world's rarest reptile]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0521-wcs_turtle.html Wed, 21 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0521-wcs_turtle.html <![CDATA[Photos of newly discovered species in Brazil's Cerrado]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0429-cerrado.html Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0429-cerrado.html <![CDATA[New map sets conservation priorities for Madagascar]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0410-madagascar.html Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0410-madagascar.html <![CDATA[How falling a gecko lands on its feet]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0317-hance_gecko.html Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0317-hance_gecko.html <![CDATA[Deforestation causes snake invasion in the Amazon]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0311-snakes.html Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0311-snakes.html <![CDATA[Rainforest logging threatens endangered sea turtles]]> Oryx. Aerial surveys in Gabon reveal that logs lost during transport are clogging beaches, preventing critically endangered leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) from nesting. ]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0225-sea_turtles.html Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0225-sea_turtles.html <![CDATA[Rainforest fragmentation affects reptiles and amphibians]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0220-urbina.html Wed, 20 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0220-urbina.html <![CDATA[Gecko-inspired adhesive tape could improve recovery from surgery]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0218-gecko.html Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0218-gecko.html <![CDATA[Sea turtle makes record migration - 12,774 miles]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0207-sea_turtle.html Thu, 07 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0207-sea_turtle.html <![CDATA[Madagascar's tortoises at high risk of extinction]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0207-wcs_madagascar.html Thu, 07 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0207-wcs_madagascar.html <![CDATA[Scientists discover four species of anole lizards in 24 hours in Panama]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0114-hance_anoles_panama.html Sun, 13 Jan 2008 06:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0114-hance_anoles_panama.html <![CDATA[Study shows that sea turtles can recover]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1219-sea_turtles.html Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1219-sea_turtles.html <![CDATA[World's largest spitting cobra discovered in Kenya]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1209-cobra.html Sun, 09 Dec 2007 06:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1209-cobra.html <![CDATA[Photo of the Venomous Gila Monster Getting an X-ray]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1128-wcs_gila.html Wed, 28 Nov 2007 06:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1128-wcs_gila.html <![CDATA[86% of sea turtle species threatened with extinction]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1114-fws_turtles.html Wed, 14 Nov 2007 06:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1114-fws_turtles.html <![CDATA[Iguanas listen to birds to avoid predators]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1029-hance_iguanas.html Mon, 29 Oct 2007 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1029-hance_iguanas.html <![CDATA[Mexican fishing villages work to change practices to preserve loggerhead turtles]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1017-sea_turtles.html Wed, 17 Oct 2007 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1017-sea_turtles.html <![CDATA[How do snakes survive starvation?]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0827-snakes.html Mon, 27 Aug 2007 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0827-snakes.html <![CDATA[Legless lizard retracts eyes to avoid retaliatory prey bites]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0814-lizards.html Tue, 14 Aug 2007 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0814-lizards.html <![CDATA[Squirrels communicate with rattlesnakes using heated tail]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0813-squirrels.html Mon, 13 Aug 2007 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0813-squirrels.html <![CDATA[Gecko + mussels = biomimetic underwater adhesive]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0719-adhesive.html Thu, 19 Jul 2007 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0719-adhesive.html <![CDATA[Forest disturbance reduces biodiversity in the Amazon rainforest]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0702-gardner.html Mon, 02 Jul 2007 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0702-gardner.html <![CDATA[Mother lizards select color patterns of offspring]]> Ecology Letters. Female side-blotched lizards determine the patterns "most likely to ensure success under the conditions they will encounter as adults," according to scientists from the University of California, Santa Cruz.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0613-lizards.html Wed, 13 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0613-lizards.html <![CDATA[New snake-like lizard discovered in India]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0528-lizard.html Mon, 28 May 2007 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0528-lizard.html <![CDATA[Rare softshell turtle rediscovered in Cambodia]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0516-ci.html Wed, 16 May 2007 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0516-ci.html <![CDATA[Sex differences fuel evolution]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0510-lizards.html Thu, 10 May 2007 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0510-lizards.html <![CDATA[Animals on islands more abundant than mainland]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0430-ucsd.html Mon, 30 Apr 2007 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0430-ucsd.html <![CDATA[Stephen Colbert's sea turtle second in race to Galapagos]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0425-turtles.html Wed, 25 Apr 2007 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0425-turtles.html <![CDATA[Stephen Colbert's sea turtle currently third in race]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0419-turtles.html Thu, 19 Apr 2007 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0419-turtles.html <![CDATA[Neon green gecko key to preventing Mauritian plant extinction]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0417-gecko.html Tue, 17 Apr 2007 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0417-gecko.html <![CDATA[Bad news for frogs; amphibian decline worse than feared]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0416-frogs.html Mon, 16 Apr 2007 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0416-frogs.html <![CDATA[Racing sea turtle named in honor of Stephen Colbert]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0413-ci.html Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0413-ci.html <![CDATA[Pythons turn bones of prey into calcium]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0331-python.html Sun, 01 Apr 2007 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0331-python.html <![CDATA[Sea turtles use Earth's magnetic field to return to nesting beaches]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0227-sea_turtles.html Tue, 27 Feb 2007 06:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0227-sea_turtles.html <![CDATA[Doctor performs kidney surgery on egg-eating snake]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0222-wcs.html Thu, 22 Feb 2007 06:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0222-wcs.html <![CDATA[Blind pink snake discovered in Madagascar]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0214-snake.html Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0214-snake.html <![CDATA[Snake becomes poisonous by eating toxic frogs]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0129-snake.html Mon, 29 Jan 2007 06:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0129-snake.html <![CDATA[Two 'dragon' species discovered in Brazil]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0124-dragon.html Wed, 24 Jan 2007 06:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0124-dragon.html <![CDATA[5 Komodo Dragons Hatch at British Zoo]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0124-komodo.html Wed, 24 Jan 2007 06:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0124-komodo.html <![CDATA[China uses snake-based earthquake prediction system]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1228-snakes.html Wed, 27 Dec 2006 06:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1228-snakes.html <![CDATA[Virgin dragon to give birth this Christmas]]> Nature]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1220-komodo.html Wed, 20 Dec 2006 06:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1220-komodo.html <![CDATA[Farmers fight FDA over pet turtle ban]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1004-turtles.html Wed, 04 Oct 2006 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1004-turtles.html <![CDATA[The science behind 'Snakes on a Plane']]> http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0807-snakes2.html Mon, 07 Aug 2006 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0807-snakes2.html