April 28, 2020

Prehensile-tailed skink

There are more species in the skink family than in any other lizard family. They generally have reduced limbs and...

April 28, 2020

Chilean rose hair tarantula

This medium-sized tarantula species gets its name from the pinkish hue of the hairs on its back. Like all spiders,...

April 28, 2020

Corn Snake

Corn snakes, also known as red rat snakes, are a slender species of snake known for their orange coloration. This...

August 17, 2019

Radiated Tortoise

Radiated tortoises are only native to the island of Madagascar but have been introduced to two other small islands to...

February 15, 2018

African Slender-snouted Crocodile

The African slender-snouted crocodile is a medium-sized crocodilian and uses its slender snout for catching fish and other relatively small...

April 28, 2017

Aldabra Giant Tortoise

Aldabra tortoises are the second-largest species of tortoise in the world and, like their larger relatives on the Galapagos Islands,...

January 12, 2017

Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake

Eastern diamondback rattlesnakes are the largest venomous snakes the U.S. They are maligned and slaughtered, both opportunistically by rural citizens...

January 12, 2017

Eastern Indigo Snake

Eastern indigo snakes are the largest native non-venomous snake in the United States. Rather than relying on constriction to disable...

January 12, 2017

Guatemalan Beaded Lizard

The Guatemalan beaded lizard lives only in an isolated pocket of desert in eastern Guatemala. Discovered by scientists in the...

January 12, 2017

Komodo Dragon

Komodo dragons are Earth’s largest living lizards and are part of the large family known as monitor lizards.

January 12, 2017

Reticulated Python

Reticulated pythons, along with the green anaconda, are the largest snakes in the world. The distinction is that these pythons...

January 12, 2017

Sidewinder

Sidewinders get their name from their unique form of side-stepping locomotion that is an adaptation for moving across loosely packed...

November 28, 2016

Diamondback Terrapin

The diamondback terrapin is unique among all turtles, except sea turtles, in that it lives in coastal brackish waters (mixture...

November 28, 2016

Alligator Snapping Turtle

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