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Yangtze turtles may avoid extinction, but not this year
Darkfrog submitted, created time 2 months 4 weeks (www.nytimes.com)
In the past months, the Changsha and Suzhou zoos came to an agreement, and the the last known female Yangtze giant soft-shell turtle was carefully transported to Suzhou to meet and hopefully mate with what was at the time the only undisputed male of her species. Two more males but no females have since been found. This is one of the most endangered species on the planet.
Herpetologists were hopeful for this high-stakes captive breeding program 
Dinosaurs are shown to be related to birds, not reptiles
Darkfrog submitted, created time 8 months 1 week (www.nytimes.com)
Genetic testing reveals a connection between the Tyrannosaurus rex and living birds such as ostriches and chickens and NOT other reptiles, such as alligators, something that has long been suspected from skeletal data.
It doesn't come as a shocker at this point, but it's nice to know.
Antibiotic Alligator: Promising proteins lurk in reptile blood
jiangyun submitted, created time 8 months 3 weeks (www.sciencenews.org)
Researchers hunting for new antibiotics might get some aid from gator blood. Scientists are zeroing in on snippets of proteins found in American alligator blood that kill a wide range of disease-causing microbes and bacteria, including the formidable MRSA or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
The rapid evolution of the tuatara
siemens submitted, created time 9 months 1 week (www.nature.com)
In a paper published this month in Trends in Genetics 1, the researchers show that the rate of molecular evolution in the reptile is among the fastest yet observed for any vertebrate.But the results contradict the theory that cold-blooded animals with slow metabolisms evolve more slowly than their warm-blooded counterparts.
Without question, there is much to learn about the rates of evolution from such studies.
Frogs and alligators swim using flexible lungs
Darkfrog submitted, created time 9 months 3 weeks (sciencenow.sciencemag.org)
Almost any swamp movie shows alligators moving through the water without twitching a muscle. Turns out there is one muscle moving: the gator's diaphragmaticus, which extends lengthwise through its body and pushes stored air to one side of the body or the other, allowing the animal to tilt in the water. I don't wonder why this developed. It's probably easier to convince prey that you're a helpless log if you never move your feet or tail. Frogs do something similar.
And now the crucial question: Do crocodiles do this too and, if so, how do we tell them apart?
Modern Turtles Much Younger Than Thought?
Vincent submitted, created time 9 months 3 weeks (sciencenow.sciencemag.org)
As reptiles go, turtles are old--no question. They evolved before snakes and crocodiles and preceded dinosaurs. But establishing when the common ancestor of modern turtles first appeared has recently become controversial. Now a new fossil is backing the idea that modern turtles evolved more recently than previously thought.
sumsung submitted, created time 10 months 2 days (www.nature.com)
Researchers investigating the agility of arboreal snakes at cold temperatures have started to detail how and when reptiles tumble out of their trees. Snakes, like all cold-blooded animals, cannot control their body temperature. Instead, they tend to go along with the conditions of their environment, slowing down their movement as the temperature drops. In particularly cold conditions, some reptiles become completely immobile, which can cause problems. A cold snap in Florida this past winter, for example, caused iguanas to fall out of their arboreal homes.
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