I spotted this guy hiding in the dirt at a botanical center last weekend.

Put a starving frog in front of video ants, and this is what you get.

Not sure where this came from, but I love it.

I only have two comments about this video: 1) That wasn’t a water moccasin. You can tell by the head that it wasn’t a poisonous snake. 2) Even if it had been poisonous, it’s still a vital part of the ecosystem, and all the driver had to do is pull over and let it crawl [...]

How many turtles can you spot in this picture?

(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 [...]

He bends down to grab
A tail where I see
A rattle…

A reader sent in this heart-warming story: Volunteers in New Haven, Vermont spend long hours at night helping newts, frogs, and salamanders cross the road safely, and are even hoping to arrange construction of little underpasses for creatures to safely pass under the roadway. This is awesome. People tend to forget that these are living [...]

Well, this is one way to deal with a yappy little dog… This 10 foot wild python saw Patty Buntine’s Maltese terrier cross-breed, named Bindi, as food. As you can tell by the terrier-sized lump in the snake’s tummy. The dog’s owner is sad but not vindictive.  The snake gets to live, and in fact [...]

DSC_0452 Snake Devouring Fish Originally uploaded by FLYINGFEET (~Hart~) I stumbled across this on Flickr… Never seen a snake eating a goldfish before, at least not in the wild.