Niners Wire

Florida hunter outlasts 200-pound Burmese python in epic wrestling match

Carl Jackson had a Burmese python encounter like few others on Jan. 13. When he finally contained the invasive snake, he had ...
The Virgin Islands Daily News

Anderson, Melamet now published authors with newsletter feature on turtles

The V.I. National Park Sea Turtle Program, run by Friends of Virgin Islands National Park, has been cataloging underwater photographs of sea turtles, and a paper on their research has been published ...
Mongabay

In Mexico, world’s smallest turtle faces big threats from trafficking, habitat loss

The Vallarta mud turtle, the world’s smallest turtle, lives only in temporary lagoons in the Mexican city of Puerto Vallarta, which poses a huge challenge for its conservation. By the time scientists ...
WWLTV

Marsh turtle hatchlings on display at Audubon Aquarium for conservation program before being released to the wild

NEW ORLEANS — Audubon Aquarium is now home to tiny Diamondback terrapins as part of Louisiana’s first-ever terrapin head-start program. Diamondback terrapins are a species of turtle native to the ...
AOL

The Turtle Facing Critical Endangerment and How You Can Help

As recently as August 2024, researchers in Greece documented the non-native Chinese stripe‑necked turtle (Mauremys sinensis) on the island of Lesbos during fieldwork, finding three adults co-occurring ...
Tampa Bay Times

Tampa’s sea turtle hospital, pushed to the limit, fights to save a record number of rescues

Frigid seas trap turtles in deadly waters — and put Florida veterinarians on the front line of a climate emergency. Frigid seas trap turtles in deadly waters — and put Florida veterinarians on the ...
Tampa Bay Times

10 ways Floridians can help protect sea turtles and their habitat

From sandcastles to sunscreen, how you can make small changes to help sea turtles. Freed from its nest, a tiny three-day-old loggerhead sea turtle hatchling makes for the open gulf in 2014. Lane ...
Ars Technica

Python plan to boost software security foiled by Trump admin’s anti-DEI rules

The Python Software Foundation has rejected a $1.5 million government grant because of anti-DEI requirements imposed by the Trump administration, the nonprofit said in a blog post yesterday. The grant ...
The St. Augustine Record

Adopt and name a washback hatchling from St. Augustine's at Whitney Lab

The Sea Turtle Hospital at the UF Whitney Laboratory in St. Augustine is launching its Adopt a Washback Sea Turtle program this month. The program runs Oct. 21-31. Those symbolically adopting one of ...
Nature

Python, the movie! The programming language’s origin story comes to the silver screen

In 2005, Travis Oliphant was an information scientist working on medical and biological imaging at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, when he began work on NumPy, a library that has become a ...
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette

From catching a big bass to learning about turtles or astrophotography, there’s lots to do outdoors in Northwest Arkansas

Bella Vista Fly Tyers will hold a sale of used fishing and outdoor gear from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday and Saturday at United Lutheran Church at 100 Cooper Road in Bella Vista. It is part of a general ...
Post and Courier

The odyssey of sea turtles still captivates

For about half the year, from May through October, the annual sea turtle saga unfolds front and center on the beaches of South Carolina. Clandestine visits in the middle of the night keep the mystery ...