Rip Van Frog

Researchers are investigating how some burrowing frogs can sleep in mud for months or years. (News source.)

Crocs in Rio Grande

Crocodiles reported in the Rio Grande near Reynosa, Mexico, are rumored to be released "by drug lords or others." A close to five-foot one was caught in a Reynosa backyard. (News source.)

Snake Bites (or Not)

A hiker was airlifted off the Blue Ridge Parkway for alleged snakebite (news source), with reports he was bitten five times by a timber rattlesnake, but medical evaluation says the snakebite story is false (news source), though the man remains hospitalized.

A Texas woman was bitten by a copperhead. (News source.)

Superpredator Salamanders

Supersized hybrid tiger salamanders are wiping out the California native species. (News source.)

Maine: Giant Snake Rumors

A "monster snake," "perhaps up to 17 feet long" was reported in Rumford, Maine. (News source.)

Australian Smuggler Fined

A man in NSW was fined $4,000 for trying to smuggle 12 pythons out of Western Australia. (News source.)

Alabama Coral Snake

A coral snake was found in central Alabama for the first time in 40 years. (News source.)

Rattler Bites

Three people in Florida have been bitten by rattlesnakes in the last week. (News source.)

Fox Snakes

A story about fox snakes near Sandusky, Ohio, here.

Fatal Attack by a Burmese Python

An unlicensed and improperly housed Burmese python killed a 2-year old girl in Florida. (News source, and here.)

Actually, while the stories say the python was a pet, it also says the man had "bagged and caged" the python the night before -- so was it a recently captured feral snake?

Pennsylvania: Snake Farm Profile

Pocono Snake and Animal Farm is profiled here.

Amphibian News

Frog deformations may be the result of dragonfly nymphs, according to some researchers. (News source.)

A pic here of a recently discovered transparent frog in Ecuador.

A fish-surfing frog photographed in the UK, here.

Axolotls are being studied for limb regeneration research. (News source.)