Reptiles > Lizards
The Common Side-blotched Lizard (Uta stansburiana) is one of the most abundant, resilient, and scientifically celebrated small reptiles in North America. Thriving across the arid deserts, sagebrush plains, and rocky washes of the American West, this small, sprightly...
Reptiles > Turtles
The Chicken Turtle (Deirochelys reticularia) is a uniquely elegant, long-necked freshwater turtle native to the sluggish cypress swamps and ephemeral ponds of the American Southeast. Famously named during the nineteenth century because early American settlers...
Reptiles > Lizards
The Sailfin Lizard (Hydrosaurus amboinensis), celebrated across Indonesia as the Amboina Sailfin Dragon or Soa-soa, is a colossal, prehistoric marvel and the largest living member of the dragon family Agamidae on Earth. Stretching nearly four feet in total length and...
Reptiles > Snakes
The Florida Cottonmouth (Agkistrodon conanti), celebrated and feared throughout the southern wetlands as the Florida Water Moccasin, is the heavy-bodied, semi-aquatic pit viper sovereign of the Sunshine State’s swamps. Formerly considered a subspecies of the...
Reptiles > Snakes
The Broad-banded Copperhead (Agkistrodon laticinctus), celebrated across the south-central United States as the handsome southwestern monarch of the genus Agkistrodon, is one of the most vividly patterned and recognizable venomous pit vipers in North America. Formerly...
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