Archive for the 'Reptiles' Category
Thursday, May 28th, 2009
KOMODO ISLAND, Indonesia – Komodo dragons have shark-like teeth and poisonous venom that can kill a person within hours of a bite. Yet villagers who have lived for generations alongside the world’s largest lizard were not afraid — until the dragons started to attack.
The stories spread quickly across this smattering of tropical islands in southeastern [...]
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Friday, March 13th, 2009
Nicholas Wadhams in Nairobi, Kenya
for National Geographic News
December 7, 2007
A new species of spitting cobra—now the largest in the world—has been named by researchers in Kenya and the United Kingdom.
The newly anointed Ashe’s spitting cobra, or large brown spitting cobra (Naja ashei), can reach lengths of more than 9 feet (274 centimeters) and is believed [...]
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Thursday, February 12th, 2009
I found this news in the national geographic site… That is a very large snake! Didn’t imagine that there are snake that large exist or used to be exist in this world…
But well, since we talk about long time ago… many things is possible…
Here is the news:
Biggest Snake Discovered; Was Longer Than a Bus
The world’s [...]
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
SYDNEY (AP) - A tiny frog species thought by many experts to be extinct has been rediscovered alive and well in a remote area of Australia’s tropical north, researchers said Thursday.
The 1.5 inch-long (40 millimeters) Armoured Mistfrog had not been seen since 1991, and many experts assumed it had been wiped out by a devastating [...]
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Saturday, September 13th, 2008
By Haslin Ghaffor
SANDAKAN, Sept 10 (Bernama) — When the waters that surround Selingaan, Gulisaan and Bakkungan Kechil islands, were turned into a marine park and named Taman Pulau-Pulau Penyu in 1977, it was done for a certain intention.
The move was not only to protect the turtles that land on the three islands, but also to [...]
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
NST, 2 Feb 2008
SETBO VILLAGE (Cambodia): Being responsible parents, rice farmer Khuorn Sam Ol and his wife might not be expected to be keen on having their child play with a 5m-long, 100kg snake.
Yet they are unflustered that their 7-year-old son, Uorn Sambath, regularly sleeps in the massive coil of a female python, rides the [...]
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Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
NST, 9 Dec 2007
NAIROBI: A new giant species of spitting cobra – about 2.6 metres long and with enough venom to kill up to 20 people in one bite – has been discovered in Kenya, a study said on Friday.
The large brown spitting cobra, initially included under the black-necked spitting cobra species, was discovered at [...]
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Saturday, March 10th, 2007
The Sun, 27 Feb 2007
HANOI (Feb 27, 2007): A python raised as a pet in southern Vietnam strangled its owner who had cared for it for more than 10 years as he was cleaning the giant snake’s cage, an official said today.
The 40kg, 2.5m reptile reached out and wrapped itself around the neck of Nguyen [...]
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Friday, December 8th, 2006
When looking for a pet think of how much time and dedication you have for walking it, feeding it, and all the other responsibilities that come along with owning a pet. If you don’t want to be involved in all of the responsibilities being a pet owner entails then you should reconsider buying a pet [...]
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