Livingstone reported the death of a little girl in Mozambique caused by an enormous snake that dashed at the child, bit her, and made off into a hole. This snake was known as Bubu to the people of the area, and they describe it as twelve feet long, dark with a dirty blue color unde...
The next plan was to try to ingest the frog in situ, beginning with a foreleg. No self-respecting, experienced garter snake would try to swallow an ungainly, long-limbed prey item like a frog by beginning anywhere other than the nose, but this little garter’s mother never taught him th...
beginning about 230 million years ago, they were the undisputed rulers of the Mesozoic skies for over 170 million years. Recent fossils suggest that hundreds of pterosaur species may have lived during any given period, dividing up the environment much like birds do today. Pterosaurs came in amaz...
and on the way back I found anotherC. discoideuson the spent flower ofHeterotheca subaxillaris(camphorweed) near the front part of the 2-track. I had not, however, seen my main objective—C. f. rutilovirescens—and was beginning to ...
At the beginning of this Session, it was noted that captive animals in collections provided evidence that reptiles are associated with a wide range of viruses. In contrast, isolations from wildcaught reptiles have been mainly arboviruses of the Togaviridae and Flaviviridae families, i.e. the ...
As mentioned at the beginning of the article, “respiratory” is a lay term often used in herpetological circles. The word refers to any ailment involving the nasal cavity, the airways or the lungs. In fact, respiratory illnesses can range from a stuffy nose to fulminate pneumonia. The sad ...
Reptiles have become increasingly common domestic pets. While several reptile species sold as pet animals are bred in captivity, most of them are taken from the wild or are the offspring of wild-caught parents. Wildlife smuggling is on the increase. At the beginning of this century, illegal tr...
This gave us confidence to infer that 25% of embryonic development had been completed by the beginning of the seven-week thermosensitive period, while 55% of development was completed at the end of the period. Hence the TSP falls within 0.25 and 0.55 of embryonic development in tuatara, ...
Neoplasia, though still not thoroughly understood, has been of medical importance since the beginning of recorded history and, undoubtedly, before that. Cancer in man presently ranks as the second largest killer, lagging only behind cardiovascular disease. As a consequence of its obvious impact on ...
The effect of nutrient cycling was prob- ably limited at the beginning, especially globally. However, at least some locations, such as Chaohu and Nanzhang-Yuan'an, likely had a SCIENTIFIC REPORTS | 5 : 8900 | DOI: 10.1038/srep08900 6 www.nature.com/scientificreports large number of marine...