Family Picks: Welcome back our cold-blooded neighbors
Every spring and summer, without fail, a frog or a lizard of some sort gets into the house at least once. Usually, we get it back outside before the cats spot it, but it’s been a reliable learning...
View ArticleTeen on mission to give snakes a better name
Fourteen-year-old Spencer Jordan’s young audience offered a mixture of silence and excited chatter as he pulled one reptile after another from his home-grown animal kingdom. “We’re going to start with...
View ArticleSerpent handler-TV star has a new cause: religious liberty
A Tennessee pastor’s dangerous spiritual practices made him a star of a reality TV series. Now they may make him a religious liberty crusader. Officials from the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency...
View ArticleGo Columbia: On the horizon, Oct. 28
MUSEUMS Hidden ‘treasures’ STATE MUSEUM GARAGE SALE: 9 a.m.-noon Saturday at 301 Gervais St. (Special members-only preview sale from 8-9 a.m.) Variety of fun and unusual props and graphics from...
View ArticleThis weekend: Reptiles rule at Repticon Atlanta (Photos)
“It’s mostly reptiles, but we focus on exotic animals and encourage other types of vendors to participate,” says spokesperson Jason Vander Waal, a cobra breeder. For example, Repticon includes sugar...
View ArticleRepticon features frozen rats and creamsicle snakes
If you are a big rat at the Repticon reptile show, you are frozen solid, sealed in a plastic baggie, and sold in a five-pack...
View ArticleContrasting Modes and Tempos of Venom Expression Evolution in Two Snake Species
Abstract Selection is predicted to drive diversification within species and lead to local adaptation, but understanding the mechanistic details underlying this process and thus the genetic basis of...
View ArticleRepticon returns to Columbia this weekend
Animal enthusiasts will have a blast at Repticon Columbia, a reptile expo...
View ArticleCold-blooded Aussies slither into the L.A. Zoo
At the top of the Los Angeles Zoo, American viper expert Ian Recchio emerged from quarantine with a writhing muscular serpent from Down Under. With its diamond head, rough scales and pretty blue eyes,...
View ArticleRepticon packs in large crowd at UNF with fans of exotic creatures
Six-year-old Morgan Anderson milled about with wide eyes and a smile as 30 vendors at 85 tables were selling some of the most exotic creatures to inhabit the University of North Florida University...
View ArticleThe Python Invasion Project: Repticon
Imagine an auditorium packed floor to ceiling with boxes full of some of the world's most feared snakes and reptiles: boa constrictors, pythons, tegus. Twice a year, that's the scene at the War...
View ArticleRepticon Atlanta holds fall show in 2013
Leapin' lizards! The large turnouts at recent Repticon expositions have resulted in an increase in the Atlanta schedule; there are now four big shows a year. The fall version of Repticon Atlanta...
View ArticleMeet the man who handles deadly snakes every day — and doesn't earn a...
Timber rattlesnake. Just imagine you looked down and spotted a rattlesnake. What would you do? Most people would run. Some might stare for a moment and slowly walk in the other direction. And a few —...
View ArticleThose smitten by snakes, lizards find kindred spirits at Repticon
Philip Varnett has sold snakes to everyone: boys and girls, other breeders and even some exotic dancers. His favorite was a woman from Orlando whose ex-boyfriend wouldn’t leave her alone. She came to...
View ArticlePet Connection: Lizards, turtles, snakes can move in, but give ’em space
They aren’t at the level of cats and dogs yet, but reptiles are scaling upward in popularity. More than 5.6 million homes in the United States keep at least one of these cold-blooded creatures as pets,...
View ArticleScaly critters feel the love at Tampa’s Repticon
TAMPA — D.J. Ak, a reptile lover from Tampa, removed Sulfie, a 2-year-old monitor lizard, from atop his head Sunday and set her down at Repticon, the reptile show regularly held at The Florida State...
View ArticleL.A. Zoo gets 42 Australian reptiles, amphibians for 7 Komodo dragons
At the top of the Los Angeles Zoo, American viper expert Ian Recchio emerged from quarantine with a writhing muscular serpent from Down Under. With its diamond head, rough scales and pretty blue eyes,...
View ArticleRepticon expo is all about ‘other’ indoor pets
This time of year, many pet lovers are in a world of hair balls where barks or meows any time of day or night signify that it’s time to open and wait by the door so you-know-who can do you-know-what in...
View ArticleRaleigh reptile show draws warm crowds
RALEIGH Many see a slithering snake, unleash a frantic “Eeew – gross!” and skedaddle, whether it’s venomous or not. On Saturday, though, snake enthusiasts and other reptile devotees flocked to the N.C....
View ArticleSnakes in the garden
What wild things dwell in that uncultivated, unkempt portion of your yard? You know the area I’m talking about — the one where you occasionally dump leaves or hastily pulled weeds, rather than walk...
View ArticleRepticon draws reptile lovers to fairgrounds
TAMPA — Cyliss Harrington sauntered through the Charles M. Davis Events Center on Sunday with two boa constrictors around his neck. On the shoulder of Harrington’s friend, Bobbi Jo Becker, was a...
View ArticleSnakes, lizards, turtles and more to be on display this weekend at Repticon
Thousands of cold-blooded critters are creeping, crawling and slithering their way into town this weekend for Repticon, a premiere expo for reptile fanatics and anyone who's curious about the...
View ArticleSnakes, lizards take over fairgrounds at Repticon Tampa
TAMPA — Joe Richichi’s axolotls were selling well Sunday at Repticon Tampa. Described by Richichi as “salamanders that are stuck in a state of metamorphosis,” axolotls are small amphibians that retain...
View ArticleReptile lovers gather to buy and sell snakes, frogs, turtles and more at...
COLUMBIA, SC — Adamanteus the golden retriever rested on the floor feet from a table of piles of venomous snakes on Saturday at Repticon, a reptile and exotic animals convention and sales show....
View ArticleSnake handler making final appearance at Rattlesnake Festival
DADE CITY — Jim Mendenhall will educate, excite and maybe even scare spectators at the San Antonio Rattlesnake Festival & Run for the last time Saturday. A Spring Hill resident who has done...
View ArticleCOMMENTARY: Jamie Coots’ snake theology was not that crazy
The death of Jamie Coots could be read as just another bit of evidence that the universe doesn’t much care what you believe. Physics, biology, geology – all perk along with or without our assent. Coots...
View ArticleLizard lovers swamp fairgrounds for Repticon
TAMPA — Miriya Laprete and her brother Cyrus sat beside a 4- to 5-foot alligator at Repticon, the reptile show held over the weekend at the Florida State Fairgrounds. Miriya, 8, and Cyrus, 7, sat on...
View ArticleTrade in exotic reptiles big business in SA
By Christina Gallagher The multimillion-rand international reptile trade in South Africa is growing, and experts have warned that, without the proper legislation in place, indigenous animals are at...
View ArticleGoodness snakes! Interest in reptiles has grown in last 10 years
TUCSON, Ariz. -- They won't play catch or fetch. And bringing the morning paper or your slippers is certainly out of the question. But many folks believe that reptiles make the best pets. "There's been...
View ArticleBig reptile show returns to Houston next week
Related topics non-traditional petssnaketurtleLizardreptile Advertisement Reptile lovers and herpers are among the non-traditional-pet enthusiasts waiting for November 17 and 18, when Repticon returns...
View ArticleYou can have your snake and feed it too
ARLINGTON -- Forget about a few snakes on a plane. Thousands of snakes and other reptiles are slithering at the Arlington Convention Center this weekend. The North American Reptile Breeders Conference...
View ArticleSnakes Star at Chattahoochee Nature Center’s reptile show Saturday
Are you afraid of snakes? Maybe that’s because you just haven’t taken the time to get to know any. But you can meet some snakes up close and personal at “Reptiles!” at the Chattahoochee Nature Center...
View ArticleOphidiophobia (fear of snakes)
Add a Comment by Holli Friedland, Baltimore Exotic Animals Examiner « Previous The first wild snake I ever caught, black rat snake (Elaphe obsoleta) with my nephew Jake and niece Heather looking on....
View ArticleNational snake show slithers into Arlington
ARLINGTON -- Forget about a few snakes on a plane. Thousands of snakes and other reptiles are slithering into the Arlington Convention Center this weekend. The North American Reptile Breeders...
View ArticleEmergency Medicine Conference Highlights Tuesday 14 August
Tuesday, 14 August 2012, 12:03 pm Press Release: Australasian College for Emergency Medicine Media release Highlights for TUESDAY AUGUST 14, Winter Symposium of the Australasian College for Emergency...
View ArticleSnake stores sperm for five years before giving birth
FAMILY planning campaigners looking for a mascot should consider the eastern diamond-backed rattlesnake. A female of the species can store sperm in her body for at least five years before using it. The...
View ArticleProved! Snakes can store sperm for 5 yrs before giving birth
London, Oct 25 (ANI): Scientists have confirmed with genetic evidence that a female eastern diamond-backed rattlesnake can store sperm in her body for at least five years before using...
View ArticleSnakes prove to be real charmers at reptile show
By More than 30 years ago, a female character in a Jim Stafford song tells a prospective suitor, "I don't like spiders and snakes, and that ain't what it takes to love me." It's a comic metaphor about...
View ArticleBorn to Be Wild
BRISTOL, Va. Brittaney Staples hands $5 across a table stacked with dozens of lidded clear-plastic containers crawling with baby milk snakes, boa constrictors, pythons and lizards. She looks inside a...
View ArticleReptiles, snakes and tarantulas - Oh my!
Saturday, gray clouds hung over the Florida State Fairgrounds as thousands of reptiles, snakes and arachnids - including huge tarantulas and scorpions - slithered and crept about. Good news for the...
View ArticleRepticon 2012 - a reptile enthusiast convention, coming in September!
Repticon, a reptile-enthusiast convention, is coming to Southaven, MS, in September of 2012. Sponsored by Texas Reptile Exhange and many other businesses from the southern and southeastern parts of the...
View ArticleThe Repticon Show Coming To Memphis- A Day For Snake Huggers
A recent press release made public that the “Repiticon Memphis Reptile and Exotic Animal Show” is coming to the Memphis, Tennessee area this fall. The show will take place in a Memphis suburb,...
View ArticleNEW: Repticon creepy, crawly and fascinating
SARASOTA - Taylor Clark's eyes glimmered with excitement. The 7-year-old held out her arms, ready to snuggle a new animal — though her choice in species would cause most first-grade girls to run away...
View ArticleRepticon creepy, crawly and fascinating
SARASOTA - Taylor Clark's eyes glimmered with excitement. The 7-year-old held out her arms, ready to snuggle a new animal — though her choice in species would cause most first-grade girls to run away...
View ArticleSnake vendors hiss at Glades study
MiamiHerald.com/columnists Oh my…. Rabbits. You really don’t want to see bunny rabbits at a reptile show. But there they were, in all their warm-blooded incongruity, with those big pleading eyes and...
View ArticleRepticon Houston: "My Snake is Prettier than Your Snake"
The cold blooded animals seen at Repticon Houston aren't usually described as cute and cuddly, but Bonnie Miller, the show's promotions team manager, assures us that they are. Well, at least some of...
View ArticleRepticon Reptile and Exotic Animal Show Returns Aug. 1-2
Comment RSS Email Print Photo: Repticon The semi-annual Repticon Reptile and Exotic Animal Show is back at the Gwinnett County Fairground at 2405 Sugarloaf Parkway in Lawrenceville August 1-2 to...
View ArticleRepticon Atlanta is July 10 & 11, 2010
A chameleon practices Kelly green. Photo: Georgia Dzurica The semiannual Repticon Atlanta Reptile and Exotic Animal Show http://www.repticon.com/atlanta.htmlis back at the Gwinnett County Fairground at...
View ArticleRepticon Atlanta is January 29 & 30, 2011
The semiannual Repticon Atlanta Reptile and Exotic Animal Show (http://www.repticon.com/atlanta.html) is back at the Gwinnett County Fairground at 2405 Sugarloaf Parkway in Lawrenceville January 29 and...
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