“I’m going to eat you!”

I stumbled across this today while looking for something completely unrelated:  A website called “Reptile Wallpapers” chock full of high quality images of our little herp friends.

Isn’t it cool how seredipity works?

His name is Henry, and he lives at the Southland Museum and Art Gallery in New Zealand with Mildred, his child bride.

Mildred hatched 11 babies from this union.

Pretty good for a 111 year old living dinosaur, eh?

Full story:  Rare Reptile Becomes Dad at Age 111

I found this God-knows-where being used by someone as their avitar.  I had to steal it and put it up here.

That is all!

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.

A friend sent me these cell phone pictures on Halloween, after running into this snake in downtown Davenport in a parking garage.

I think it’s a juvenile bull snake.

I have always loved the Firesign Theater.

This toad lives in my friend’s basement, and has lived down there for years.  Sometimes we wonder if it ever gets lonely.

Yes, you heard right.  George Orwell, author of 1984 and Animal Farm, is blogging from the great beyond.

Actually, it’s the organization who runs The Orwell Prize that’s doing the blogging, publishing Orwell’s diaries exactly 70 years from the day each entry was written.

And in the very first post, George describes catching a snake.

Delilah, who I think is the only person who actually visits this website, asks:  "I hope you don’t mind me asking if you know what kind of lizard this is. Just tell me if you don’t know. S’cool. "

This lizard is, I think, a "5-Lined Skink" (Eumeces fasciatus).  I’ve seen one of those here in McKinney at the park.

Thank you for sending me these pictures, Delilah!

Delilah writes:  "Do you know much about snakes? We saw a skinny 2′ green one."

That snake looks like what we used to call a ‘vine snake’ and they’re harmless.  It looks to be, officially, a "Rough Green Snake" (Opheodrys aestivus).  That’s my guess based upon the area where you found it, otherwise I’d eyeball it as a Smooth Green Snake.