Reptiles > Boas & Pythons
Boelen’s Python (Simalia boeleni) is one of the most magnificent, revered, and elusive constrictors on the planet. Native exclusively to the mist-shrouded, high-altitude montane cloud forests of central New Guinea, this highland giant thrives at extreme...
Reptiles > Tortoises & Turtles
The Fitzroy River Turtle (Rheodytes leukops) is an astonishing freshwater chelonian endemic strictly to the Fitzroy River basin in southeastern Queensland, Australia. Renowned in aquatic physiology as the ultimate ‘bum-breathing turtle,’ this...
Reptiles > Tortoises & Turtles
The Spiny Turtle (Heosemys spinosa), commonly known as the ‘cog-wheel turtle’ or spiny terrapin, is one of the most architecturally unique chelonians in the world. Native to the humid rainforest floors of Southeast Asia, this terrestrial geoemydid is...
Reptiles > Colubrid Snakes
The Mangrove Snake (Boiga dendrophila), also famously celebrated as the gold-ringed cat snake, is one of the most visually stunning and dramatic arboreal colubrids of Southeast Asia. Reaching lengths of up to eight feet, this magnificent rear-fanged serpent is...
Reptiles > Venomous Snakes
The Banded Water Cobra (Naja annulata), formerly classified within the distinct aquatic genus Boulengerina, is a formidable semi-aquatic elapid native to the ancient Great Lakes and river basins of Central Africa. Reaching lengths exceeding seven feet, this muscular,...
Reptiles > Venomous Snakes
Belcher’s Sea Snake (Hydrophis belcheri), also known as the faint-banded sea snake, is an elapid marine reptile famed in herpetology for possessing one of the most concentrated and lethal neurotoxic venoms of any vertebrate on Earth. Native to the warm coral...
Reptiles > Boas & Pythons
The Round Island Boa (Casarea dussumieri), or Keel-scaled Boa, is an extraordinary, evolutionarily unique serpent native exclusively to the tiny, storm-battered volcanic islet of Round Island off the coast of Mauritius. The sole surviving member of the archaic family...
Reptiles > Tortoises & Turtles
The Plowshare Tortoise (Astrochelys yniphora), known locally in Madagascar as the ‘Angonoka,’ is widely regarded as the most beautiful and rarest tortoise on planet Earth. Distinguished by its extraordinary, high-domed golden carapace patterned with bold...
