Florida Lizard News

A profile on the introduced ameiva, here.

Dogs that eat the frozen iguanas in Florida may end up with botulism. (News source.)

Frog Vet

An Australian vet took on a frog that had been hit by a lawnmower, successfully. (News source.)

RoboCroc, R. I. P.

The American crocodile that underwent massive surgery on its skull, has died. (News source.)

Croc Surgery

An American crocodile, found hit by a car, underwent reconstructive facial surgery, receiving steel plates in its head. (News source.)

Sea Turtle Prosthetics

A Japanese conservation group is planning to have prosthetic limbs made for a sea turtle injured in a probable shark attack. (News source.)

Tortoise Surgery

A 13-year old spur-thighed tortoise successfully underwent surgery for a bladder stone. (News source.)

Antivenom?

A Kansas dog breeder used Azium to treat an alleged rattlesnake bite, as reported in this piece. The news article (an outdoors column) calls Azium an antivenom, though, which is incorrect... It may have helped with some symptomatic relief (I'm not a toxicologist or doctor, so no statements of fact here), but the columnist is doing a major disservice (and a dangerous one) in spreading false medical information.

[Update: Per a recent comment, no, I'm not going to comment on their site. I've already sent a letter to their editor. I don't believe it is up to an online "community" to correct this sort of misinformation, (at most, we can bring issues to attention, and even then, public forums are low-rung options); it is up to medical professionals to correct medical information.]

Tortoise News

Here's a story of 12 tortoises that were caught in a fire, and the vets at UC Davis who worked on them.

Two Galapagos tortoises in Tahiti were given an 80-year anniversary celebration. (News source.)

Turtle Stranding Season

Cold air and warm water make for stunned turtles off Cape Cod... (News source.)

Sea Turtle Medicine

A sea turtle attacked by dogs had to have a flipper amputated due to the injuries. (News source.)

Lucky Red-Ear

Anywhere else, a hit-by-car red-eared slider would be considered an unwelcome invasive, but a lucky turtle in New Zealand got patched up by a vet. (News source.)

Gator News

Two Florida gators (residing at a nature center) hate going to the vet... (News source.)

Dam construction threatens Siamese crocodiles in Cambodia. (News source.)

Dachshund vs Mojave Green

A rare survival? A miniature dachshund was successfully treated for a bite by a Mojave green rattlesnake. (News source.)

Dogs and Snakes

A dog in Taiwan attacked a cobra before it could bite its master. The dog died from envenomation, as antivenom wasn't available. (News source.)

The owners of a dog in California credit a rattlesnake venom vaccine for saving their dog's life after being bitten twice. (News source.)

Turtle Operation

Veterinary surgeons in Israel inserted a metal plate into a loggerhead turtle's fin, after it was severed by fishing line. (News source.)

Sea Turtle Prosthetic

A green sea turtle that lost three flippers to sharks will be fitted with a prosthetic flipper so that won't just swim in circles. (News source.)

Sea Turtle Rehab

Here's a profile on the Loggerhead Marinelife Center, a sea turtle hospital.

Croc Surgery

A 14-year old African dwarf crocodile at the Assiniboine Park Zoo (Canada) underwent surgery for removal of a corneal ulcer. (News source.)

Tortoise Surgery

Veterinarians at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine performed front leg surgery on a yellow-foot tortoise. Specific details are vague (they removed a piece of the humerus?) but apparently it was the first time this particular surgery was done on a tortoise. (News source.)

Frog Stories

A new shrub frog, called Philautus ochlandrae, has been described in the Western Ghats, Kerala, India. (News source.)

A dog in Hawaii may have died as the result of a poison-arrow frog encounter. Experts are uncertain, as the Hawaiian invasive shouldn't be as toxic as in its native habitat, but the dog might have been allergic. (News source.)

Turtle Hospital

Sea World, in the Gold Coast, Australia, is taking care of a record number of injured sea turtles in its veterinary facility. (News source.)

Misc Herp News

A South African man was charged with possession of a python, which he was using for healing purposes. (News source.)

The Iowa state director for political candidate Mike Huckabee is a snake enthusiast. (News source.)

Two American crocs have been confirmed in the Sans Soucí port region, Dominican Republic, concerning the locals. (News source.)

Here is a profile on a luxury resort in Oman with beaches used by nesting sea turtles.

Here is a profile on a gila monster that had to be x-rayed, and the steps taken to do so safely.

Sea Turtle News

1200 baby sea turtles washed ashore on several Florida beaches, and are recovering at Volusia County's marine science center. (News source.)

A $1 million sea turtle rehabilitation facility has been proposed for Surf City, NC, to replace an older facility in need of expansion. (News source.)

VetScan

Purdue is testing VetScan for exotic animals, including reptiles. It will allow quick blood analysis so that vets don't have to send samples out to labs for testing. (News source.)