This sassy lil watersnake had to stop and eat a toad in the yard before the photographer captured it for our herp photo of the day uploaded by kingsnake.com user dinahmoe ! Be sure to tell them you liked it here! Upload your own reptile and amphibian photos at gallery.kingsnake.com, and you could see them […]
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Feb 21
Feb 21
A Mock Viper
As an adult, the mock viper attains a length of only 15 inches. Hirnan, our boat captain, was not a great fan of snakes. Frogs, salamanders, turtles, crocodilians, lizards were all OK, but when snakes were encountered, they and Capitan Hirnan quickly parted company. We had been were on a discus (tropical fish) finding foray […]
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Fossil gives insight to Aldabra's historic predator
An Aldabran giant tortoise from the Aldabra Atoll in the Indian Ocean, feeding on algae. A new study suggests these giant tortoises might once have been hunted by giant, prehistoric crocodiles. Credit Dennis Hansen/University of Zurich, Switzerland Today Aldabra Atoll, part of the Seychelles, is predator free, but a recent discovery of a fossilized jaw […]
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