Namaqua Chameleon
Tracy Karplus
Young Namaqua Chameleon (Chamaeleo namaquensis) basks alongside a dirt road cutting through the Namib Desert in Namibia. Photo by Seth Cohen.
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Common Snapping Turtle
Common snapping turtles are often overlooked or underappreciated as a species and perhaps even suffer a bit of a bad rap due to their defensiveness and strong bite when on land. However, underwater, they become almost puppy-like with their curiosity, often approaching very closely.
Australian Thorny Devil
Australian thorny devils are very tolerant of high outback temperatures and they are capable of basking in the sun during the hottest parts of the day.
What’s inside a tadpole?
Tadpoles are often some of the first wildlife that people encounter and remember; wriggling around in ponds and puddles, they evoke feelings of simpler days and times for people across walks of life and around the world. But when you really get to know tadpoles, you realize there is a lot more to them than simple little algae scrapers…
Magdalena River Turtle
The Magdalena River Turtle (Podocnemis lewyana) is a Colombian endemic classified as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List.
Kirtland’s Snake
Kirtland’s Snakes are perhaps most well-known for their microhabitat associations with burrowing crayfishes, where they traverse the aquatic-fossorial and predator-prey boundary in the dark, flooded underground labyrinths excavated by their crayfish hosts.
Timber Rattlesnake
Timber rattlesnakes are a species of conservation concern throughout much of their distribution. The reasons for this range from habitat loss to direct persecution.
Brown Vinesnake
“The Brown Vine Snake is one of the only arboreal tropical species that makes its way into the U.S., coming from Mexico and into the state of Arizona!” – Berkeley Martineau