You don't need fur to be cute!

It's an Armadillo Lizard.

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And they come in all sizes

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Lonesome to be lonesome even in death

GALAPAGOS ISLANDS, Ecuador, June 28 (UPI) -- Lonesome George, the giant Galapagos tortoise who died on Sunday as the last of his species, will be embalmed and put on display, officials in Ecuador say.

The Pinta Island tortoise will be on display on Santa Cruz Island for future generations to see.

As the only known living example of his subspecies, Chelonoidis nigra abingdoni, Lonesome George was considered the rarest creature in the world.

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No tadpoles here

Carrying out his fatherly duty, a male Oreophryne frog in Papua, New Guinea, guards his clutch and two newly hatched froglets that rest atop the egg mass.

Like many of the Microhylidae family, these frogs bypass the tadpole stage, developing fully within the egg.

Male frogs embrace their clutch each night to keep the eggs moist and protect them from predators such as insects.

Photograph by George Grall 

 

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Could this be love?

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It's the first baby Cuban crocodile born at the National Zoo in almost 25 years. See more pictures here.

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Peek-a-boo!

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Baby Lizards That Fit in the Palm of Your Hand

Babies of all kinds tend to have a cuteness factor, but baby lizards get an A+ in being adorable.

Each of the little reptiles pictured here will grow up pretty fast, so it’s lucky for us some terrific photographers have got in quick and captured their cuteness on camera!

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Snake hunt at Bronx Zoo

NEW YORK - The Bronx Zoo closed its reptile house exhibit over the weekend after workers discovered a highly poisonous Egyptian cobra was missing from its enclosure. Source

Huge Boa Constrictor Found In Car Engine

A California couple returning from a trip to the grocery store Thursday found a 9-foot boa constrictor under the hood of their car. Animal control workers used a little cooking oil to loosen the red tail boa's grip on the car engine. It's not clear where the snake came from. But animal control workers said they suspect it broke free from its owner's care. Source

Cute or not? Albino baby turtle

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Rare pink iguana studied

A species of pink land iguana overlooked by Charles Darwin during his visits to the Galapagos Islands may provide evidence of the ancient animals' diversification in the archipelago, scientists have reported. Galapagos National Park rangers first stumbled upon the striking land lizard a few decades ago, but this week's study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences is the first to officially document the iguana. Source: msnbc

This doesn't sound relaxing to me

An Israeli health and beauty spa is offering a snake massage for its customers. Ara Barak claims her pet snakes make the ideal masseurs as their slithering causes a massage sensation when placed on a person's skin. Ms Barak said she discovered her pet's 'therapeutic value' after noticing her friends became more relaxed after holding them. No, thanks. Source: Daily Mail (via Life in the Fast Lane)

Rare albino cobra

Visitors flock to the Madras Crocodile Bank Trust in the Indian city of Chennai because of the remarkable beauty of Goya, an albino cobra. Goya, who is a milky color with shades of pink, was a gift from Dehiwala Zoo in Sri Lanka where they specially breed albino snakes. The three-and-a-half foot reptile was the only one of his albino siblings to survive, and is now kept on his own in a specially constructed enclosure. Goya spends most of his day indoors due to his sensitivity to light, only venturing outside for his daily meal of five live rats. Source: Telegraph

Centenarian to become dad again

Henry the Tuatara, regarded as the last of the dinosaurs, will become a father for the first time in 40 years at the ripe old age of 111. The indigenous New Zealand reptile - who is regarded as one of the last living descendants of the dinosaurs - has mated with Mildred, a youngster aged between 70 and 80. The pair produced 12 eggs in mid-July after mating earlier this year at the Southland Museum on New Zealand's South Island, Tuatara curator Lindsay Hazley said. Tuatara are the lizard-like last descendants of a species of reptile that walked the earth with the dinosaurs 225 million years ago, zoologists say. Henry has lived at the Southland Museum's special enclosure for Tuatara since 1970 and had shown no interest in sex until he recently had a cancerous growth removed from his genitals. He is now enjoying the company of three females and might breed again next March, Hazley said. "With these guys, foreplay might take years. One has to be patient," he said. Source: Daily Mail