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Two-Headed Bobtail Lizard

One head is known to attack the other.  That must suck. Read full story at BBC Online.

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Anoles like kiddie playhouses too!

“My daughter, Emily, took this in September. See? Lizards like kiddie playhouses too!” – My friend Delilah Peeler Anolis carolinus

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Giant “Alien” Snakes Are Invading?

(Read Article on PawNation) This somewhat misleading title on PawNation links to a rather interesting article on problems caused by letting exotic pets go into the wild. This is actually old news.  But it’s a really good picture. Personally, if I were a kid right now, I’d be excited about the prospect of going out [...]

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Iguana Rosada – The New Pink Iguana

So, this is a newly discovered specie of iguana?  Something that Darwin missed during his adventures on the Galapagos Islands? Looks to me like a plain old Galapagos iguana with a skin condition.  Read the full story on TreeHugger.com

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Johnson's Newt Oil

I have always loved the Firesign Theater.

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Some People Get Snow, Some Get Lizards

Ever want to catch a live, wild iguana? Easy.  Go down to Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park on Key Biscayne when the weather gets cold.  They rain from the trees, and lay dormant on the ground until the sun comes out and warms them up. According to the Miami Herald, the locals aren’t too [...]

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Python Ordered on a No Golf Ball Diet

I’ve heard that snakes will swallow strange things, like, oh, alligators, and I personally saw a little garter snake trying to eat a sparrow way too large for it to ever successfully swallow. Here, however, is a National Geographic article about a Australian Carpet Python who has a taste for golf balls:  Python Undergoes Golf [...]

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Lizard Attack on Live TV

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Bearded Dragon Gives Birth To Toy Lizard

Florida veterinarian John Rossi was confronted by a seven year old girl named Finley and her pet lizard, Mushu, who she thought was giving birth.  It looked like another tail was protruding from beneath Mushu’s tail. Rossi sedated the bearded dragon and began pulling on the second tail, and was rewarded with a pair of [...]

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Hello! Welcome!

Hey, you’re here just in time to read my very first post! I’m a writer and photographer, not a Herpetologist, though I wanted to be a Herpetologist when I was a teen. My hero was Dr. Robert C. Stebbins, author of A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians. That was my bible. I still [...]

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