Slevin’s Skink

Reptiles > Skinks & Scincids

Slevin’s Skink (Emoia slevini) is a critically endangered scincid lizard endemic exclusively to the Mariana archipelago in the western Pacific. Once common across Guam, Rota, and Tinian, this sleek diurnal reptile has vanished from the southern Marianas,...

Phuket Horned Tree Agamid

Reptiles > Dragons & Agamids

The Phuket Horned Tree Agamid (Acanthosaura phuketensis) is a captivating spiny agamid lizard native to the rain-drenched granite hills of Phuket Island and the adjacent mainland of southern Thailand. Characterized by prominent dagger-like spines above its eyes and an...

Canberra Grassland Earless Dragon

Reptiles > Dragons & Agamids

The Canberra Grassland Earless Dragon (Tympanocryptis pinguicolla) is one of Australia’s rarest and most critically endangered reptiles, a tiny, cryptic agamid lizard surviving only in tiny remnants of natural temperate grasslands around Canberra. Completely...

Pilbara Death Adder

Reptiles > Elapids & Snakes

The Pilbara Death Adder (Acanthophis wellsi) is a heavily built, highly venomous elapid snake endemic strictly to the ancient, rust-red ironstone ranges and arid gorges of the Pilbara region in northwestern Western Australia. Unlike typical slender, active-hunting...

Chameleon Gecko

Reptiles > Geckos

The Chameleon Gecko (Carphodactylus laevis) is a singular, archaic Australian lizard endemic strictly to the primeval rainforests of Queensland’s Wet Tropics. The sole member of its monotypic genus within the ancient Australasian family Carphodactylidae, this...

Bach’s Calotes

Reptiles > Lizards

Bach’s Calotes (Calotes bachae) is a spectacularly colorful agamid lizard discovered and scientifically described in 2013 from the tropical forests of southern Vietnam and eastern Cambodia. Long confused with the widespread blue-crested lizard (Calotes...

Vulcan Skink

Reptiles > Lizards

The Vulcan Skink (Lipinia vulcania) is an exquisite, slender arboreal lizard endemic to the mist-shrouded volcanic peaks of Negros Island in the central Philippines. Originally discovered on the fertile, ash-draped slopes of active volcano Mount Canlaon—from which it...

Water Anole

Reptiles > Lizards

The Water Anole (Anolis aquaticus) is an extraordinary semi-aquatic dactyloid lizard native to the pristine, boulder-strewn rainforest streams of southern Central America. Famously celebrated by evolutionary biologists for its ground-breaking respiratory mechanics,...

La Gomera Giant Lizard

Reptiles > Lizards

The La Gomera Giant Lizard (Gallotia bravoana) is one of the rarest reptiles in the world, an ancient lacertid endemic strictly to the volcanic island of La Gomera in the Canary Islands archipelago. Feared completely extinct for centuries due to introduced mammalian...

Pilbara Rock Monitor

Reptiles > Lizards

The Pilbara Rock Monitor (Varanus pilbarensis) is a dazzling, dwarf monitor lizard endemic strictly to the arid, ironstone-rich canyon country of the Pilbara in Western Australia. Adapted exclusively to life on sheer, sun-baked rock precipices, this agile predator...