Happy Rattlesnake Friday! Today we bring you this serene headshot of a lovely Black-tailed Rattlesnake (Crotalus molossus), uploaded by kingsnake.com user MartinWhalin1 ! This guy was found in the wild in Arizona and as you can see, he was respected by the herpers and he gave them respect in return. Be sure to tell them […]
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Jan 17
Jan 17
New species of African House Snake discovered after decades in captivity
A Boaedon broadleyi, or Broadley’s African house snake. Photo from Petr Nečas, shared by Jakob Hallermann When a traveling biologist kept a snake he found back in the 80’s and made it a specimen when it did not survive, the last thing he would have expected was decades later it would be identified as a […]
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