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

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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 to catch these [...]

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.

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I have always loved the Firesign Theater.

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 fond of [...]

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 Ball-ectomy

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 rubber [...]

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. [...]