Subject:

Reptiles and Amphibians

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2012

    Burmese Python Eats 10 Bird Eggs, Vomits. Scientists Worried

    An 8-foot-long Burmese python captured in Miami-Dade last year either watched Cool Hand Luke far too many times or was just very stupid and very hungry.According to a new study, the snake puked up ten intact bird eggs soon after the Miami-Dade Venom Response Program captured it. Meanwhile, the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2012

    Forest Ranger Beats Huge Python to Death With Rake, Posts YouTube Video, Retires for Unrelated Reasons

    ​Most people eat cake and slack off on their last day of work. Not Jean Bernard Tarrete. The former forest ranger wrapped up his career with the Florida Forest Service at the end of March by hunting down a 15-foot Burmese python, wrestling with the beast while a coworker beat it to death with ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2012

    JAVMA Probes Whether Burmese Pythons Are Mere Hype or Slithering Destructive Force

    ​Despite the string of national headlines, television specials, a federal ban, and grotesque photographs, it's becoming increasingly unclear whether Burmese pythons are permanently wrecking the Everglades or if they're just an overhyped nuisance. Earlier this year, scientists r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2012

    Expanding Snake Ban Could Cause Economic Woe, Feed Python Hype, Reptile Group Says

    ​Earlier this year, our cowboy-hat-wearing secretary of the interior, Ken Salazar, hosted a news conference in the Everglades to announce a federal ban on importing four species of snakes, including the much-loathed Burmese python. Now, a new proposal from Reps. Tom Rooney and Ted Deutch ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2012

    Python Destruction of Everglades May Be Overhyped

    ​At the end of January, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published a study suggesting that Burmese pythons were decimating mammal populations in the Everglades. The numbers were shocking: a 99 percent decline in raccoon sightings, a 98 percent drop in opossum  ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2012

    Save the Turtles: The Misguided, Misinformed, and Misdirected Battle for Hillsboro Lighthouse

    ​​All they wanted was some darkness for the baby sea turtles. But what started out as a simple request for protection of the endangered animals has ballooned into a yearslong battle among local advocates, the U.S. Coast Guard, and numerous agencies in which the original message has been lost in ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 2, 2012

    Horrible Ancient Animals

    ​​All they wanted was some darkness for the baby sea turtles. But what started out as a simple request for protection of the endangered animals has ballooned into a yearslong battle among local advocates, the U.S. Coast Guard, and numerous agencies in which the original message has been lost in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2012

    Hungry Hungry Pythons Decimate Mammal Populations in Everglades

    ​It's no secret that Burmese pythons have been wreaking havoc in the Everglades, but the extent of their destruction has been hard to grasp. A new study provides some of the first hard statistics on how these invasive reptiles are altering the food chain, and the numbers are downright scary.Betwee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2012

    Monster Pythons From the Everglades Get Dissected on PBS Show (Video)

    ​Nature shows are simply brilliant television. Sharks devouring seals in midair, a Golden Eagle dragging a helpless mountain goat to a savage death, and monkeys getting wasted off fermented fruit -- these are things dreams are made of.  Now South Floridians can puff out their chest with local ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2012

    Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre Foods America: Get Your Own Turtle, Raccoon to Eat

    ​Get ready for another season of Bizarre Foods, as host Andrew Zimmern eats his way through the entire wildlife encyclopedia. This year, Zimmern's staying in the United States, giving us at home the opportunity to try strange foods in our own backyard.This morning, Zimmern visited the Today Show t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2012

    Burmese Pythons Can Survive in Saltwater. Damn.

    ​As if snakes large enough to swallow -- or at least try to swallow -- alligators in the Everglades aren't frightening enough, U.S. Geological Survey researchers delivered a bit of unsettling news this week about Burmese pythons. These massive beasts can't be held back by saltwater. The resea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2011

    Florida Has World's Worst Invasive Amphibian and Reptile Problem, According to UF Research

    University of FloridaThis iguana doesn't belong in Florida, but here it is at someone's front door in Lake Worth.​If you're looking for a reptile or amphibian species that "causes or is likely to cause economic or environmental harm or harm to human health," chances are, it's in Florida.According ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2011

    Wildlife Officers Find Felon With a Gun, as Well as a Few Bags Containing 260 Baby Alligators

    Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation CommissionThat, ladies and gentlemen, is a sack of alligators.​Here's what Robert "Bo" Martin Duval and Christopher Cork Scroggins found out a few days ago: Having a sack full o' baby alligators is a felony.According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2011

    Mayor Jack Seiler Responds to Sea Turtle Activists Clamoring for His Attention

    Hmm, Quite.​Activists protesting the death of baby sea turtles because of Fort Lauderdale's flawed beach lighting know how to get Mayor Jack Seiler's attention: holding signs up against the windows of City Hall during a commission meeting, passing out his private cell phone number, calling him a m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2011

    Mayor Jack Seiler's Curt Email Response to Sea-Turtle Activists: "Your Facts Are Wrong"

    S.T.O.P.Roadkill baby turtles​"MAYOR SEILER HATES BABY TURTLES!" That's a popular refrain these days among advocates for sea turtles on Fort Lauderdale's beaches. Around this time of year, eggs buried by mother turtles on the beach hatch, releasing inch-long baby turtles who need to find their way ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2011

    Florida Wildlife Commission: Be on the Lookout for Freak Seven-Foot Lizards

    U.S. Geological SurveyThis is a Nile Monitor lizard, which you should not wrestle​If you see a seven-foot lizard in your Broward or Palm Beach residence, that's a problem, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.Nile Monitor lizards, native to Africa, have been popping u ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2011

    7-Foot Burmese Python Escapes in West Palm Beach

    Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation CommissionThe 7-foot snake that was slithering around West Palm Beach​The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission isn't too happy with David T. Beckett after they say his 7-foot Burmese python escaped its enclosure and began wandering around res ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2011

    Burmese Pythons Not Going Anywhere

    Courtesy, AP/Everglades Nat'l Park​At left, you'll find the single most interesting picture taken in Florida in the last five years. (Other than this one, I mean.) Pictured is a 13-foot Burmese Python which has bitten off more than it can chew -- except the python has dispensed with the biting, an ... More >>

  • Music

    October 28, 2010

    Crocodiles Take a Bite Out of Grand Central

    Courtesy, AP/Everglades Nat'l Park​At left, you'll find the single most interesting picture taken in Florida in the last five years. (Other than this one, I mean.) Pictured is a 13-foot Burmese Python which has bitten off more than it can chew -- except the python has dispensed with the biting, an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2010

    A Night With Sea Turtle Hatchling Rescue in Fort Lauderdale

    ​Here is a heartbreaking video from YouTube, posted by an activist group known as Sea Turtle Oversight Protection. It's called "Ten Minutes in the Night of a Rescue Volunteer." The date of the clip is the evening of July 10, and a map shows the location where it was shot: on the sand behind the Sh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2010

    A Breeder's View on the Proposed Python Ban

    Courtesy of Greg Bryant​Greg Bryant raises reticulated pythons, the longest snakes in the world. From the Retic Ranch in Delray Beach, he breeds animals that can grow to 20 feet and top 100 pounds and sells them around the world. His livelihood is now threatened by federal legislation, proposed la ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2010

    Morning Juice: Aid to Haiti Trickles in; FPL Rate Hike Denied

    ​The catastrophe in Haiti dominates the headlines in South Florida and around the world:The Port Au Prince airport is now taking chartered flights and aid has arrived -- just nearly enough to meet the dire need for water and fuel. [New York Times]Lynn University in Boca Raton learned late last nig ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2010

    Manatees to Pythons: A Rough Weekend For Local Wildlife

    Baby, it's cold outside.​Iguanas falling from the sky.Pythons slithering from the swamps and into suburban yards in search of warmth. It would make a great horror movie if it weren't true life. It's been so frigid in South Florida this week that 250 sea turtles in cold shock have already been pick ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2009

    Two-time Sea Turtle Poacher Bruce Bivins Sentenced

    Photo by Flickr user anej1030​For some old-timers in Riviera Beach, the start of any date out with your woman begins with sea turtle eggs. You poach them, sprinkle salt on their papery skin, and then eat the aphrodisiacs in one bite. Back when I first wrote about that nasty habit back in 2002, cop ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2009

    Two-time Sea Turtle Poacher Bruce Bivins Sentenced

    Photo by Flickr user anej1030​For some old-timers in Riviera Beach, the start of any date out with your woman begins with sea turtle eggs. You poach them, sprinkle salt on their papery skin, and then eat the aphrodisiacs in one bite. Back when I first wrote about that nasty habit back in 2002, cop ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2009

    PETA Fretting Over Humane Deaths for Giant Snakes

    PETA says: Stun and decapitate​Florida Fish and Wildlife has yet to respond to a July 30th letter from Lori Kettler, senior counsel for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), concerning humane death for Florida's thousands of Burmese pythons. Tori Perry, senior cruelty caseworker at P ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2009

    Man and Beast: State Bird Gets the Heave-Ho; Monkeys Go Home; Pythons Morph Into Man-Eaters

    The rock python's scary-sexy maw.​Amnesty Day is coming up on October 3, but that's amnesty for you, not for our scaly friends. Owners of exotic reptiles may turn in their anacondas at Gatorland in Orlando, no questions asked. It's time for Spot the reticulated python to find a new home, if he sur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2009

    Please Don't Eat the Pythons... or Freeze the Iguanas

    Our friend, the Burmese python.​Wild critters in Florida have many subtle ways of fighting the predations of man. And now that Florida has declared open season on invasive pythons, it's a good bet that the snakes are going to have the last word, even if it's spoken with forked tongue. Python meat ... More >>

  • News

    September 3, 2009

    On the Hunt for Exotic Lizards in the Florida Everglades

    Our friend, the Burmese python.​Wild critters in Florida have many subtle ways of fighting the predations of man. And now that Florida has declared open season on invasive pythons, it's a good bet that the snakes are going to have the last word, even if it's spoken with forked tongue. Python meat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2009

    Whacking Day Comes to South Florida

     The day is upon us. Yes, every Simpsons fan knows Whacking Day started in 1924 as an excuse to beat up the Irish. And yes, technically Texas has had organized snake whacking for years. But now Florida's bravest most cunning snake-hatingest citizens will descend upon the swamps of this state ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 30, 2009

    An Ocean of Art

     The day is upon us. Yes, every Simpsons fan knows Whacking Day started in 1924 as an excuse to beat up the Irish. And yes, technically Texas has had organized snake whacking for years. But now Florida's bravest most cunning snake-hatingest citizens will descend upon the swamps of this state ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2009

    Man and Beast: Temps Rise, Tempers Flare

    Kitten terrorizes Wellington teensThe heat index climbed over 110 last month and we've had more rain than you could shake a wet cat at -- two factors likely to get everybody feeling ornery. Judging from the number of weird animal incidents this week, that includes our furry, feathered, and scaled ... More >>

  • News

    February 26, 2009

    When Animal Activists Attack

    Bitten on the set of a Rick Ross video, Mark McCarthy now squares off against animal activists.

  • News

    December 25, 2008

    Hog Huntin'

    A lost art or a horrible slaughter? It's all in the eye of the hunter.

  • Calendar

    October 30, 2008

    She Came From the Jungle

    A lost art or a horrible slaughter? It's all in the eye of the hunter.

  • Calendar

    June 12, 2008

    Puttin’ Him on a Pedestal

    A lost art or a horrible slaughter? It's all in the eye of the hunter.

  • Calendar

    March 20, 2008

    Reptile Style

    A lost art or a horrible slaughter? It's all in the eye of the hunter.

  • News

    January 10, 2008

    The Gator People!

    Strange creatures haunt the Everglades. And that's just the humans.

  • News

    November 2, 2006

    Off the Leash

    In the exotic pet universe, it's all about whose is weirder than whose.

  • News

    May 4, 2006

    Bulldozers Gone Wild

    Bad, CRA! Bad, Bad CRA!

  • Goods and Services

    May 12, 2005

    Best Pet Store

    Wild Cargo Pets & Supplies

  • Subtropical Life

    May 13, 2004

    Best Place to Take Out-of-Towners

    Big Cypress Seminole Reservation

  • Calendar

    October 16, 2003

    Get Cookin'

    Food glorious food

  • Calendar

    July 11, 2002

    Turtle Tryst

    Save the baby sea turtles!

  • Goods and Services

    May 16, 2002

    Best Tacky Florida Kitsch

    Alex's Gift Shop

  • Goods and Services

    May 16, 2002

    Best Edible Florida Souvenirs

    Angie's Groves

  • Calendar

    June 8, 2000

    Croaked on Arrival

    "Frogs! (The Un-Toad Story)" is on view at the South Florida Science Museum

  • Sports and Recreation

    March 11, 1999

    Best Place To Bird-Watch

    Wakodahatchee Wetlands

  • News

    February 25, 1999

    Letters

    Wakodahatchee Wetlands

  • News

    February 4, 1999

    Cold-Blooded Smuggling

    The recent bust of a Hollywood importer sheds light on an illegal reptile trade that has adventurous smugglers making easy money

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