Confession time: The reason I've not been updating as much is simply because I've been using my other Gmail account more. Having bo...

This picture is MINE...but was done with Field Museum equipment, and is for their use.   Now for something I actually did: This is t...

So, yeah. Still no job. Petco rejected me. I can nigh-guarantee that I know more about snakes than anybody else they're willing to hire...

There are a number of advantages to visiting places that naturally have cool wild animals. One, you get to see wild animals in their natura...

Remember when I said I had experience handling reptiles? Well... These are all my hatchling corn snakes ( Pantherophis guttatus ; for...

So, what is a leatherback, anyways? We gathered from the news video that it was an endangered sea turtle. How endangered? Are they really t...

Tip: You can tell how loose a state's animal laws are by how awesome their zoo is. If the reptile house in San Antonio was any indicati...

Argus monitors...and how big they get. It's a tigertic! For those of you who do not speak snake breeder, that means this fully-m...

***NOTE: Apologies for not doing an entry yesterday. There were two successive power outages that more or less prevented it from getting po...

Well!  Today is the first official day of the Chinese Year of the Snake! What better way to celebrate than do kick things off with a Chines...

 Pinch, punch, last week of the month! You know what that means: It's a Theme Week! This month's theme is MEGAFAUNA. Let me say it ...

One of the biggest reasons to save the rainforest involves finding new species. N ational Geographic does not slack in that regard, showing...

Blah, porcupines. No matter how neat porcupines and horned gophers are, this blog needs more badassery. Enough about rodents. Let's jus...

Y'know how I keep saying "if you want to stop the exotic animal trade, stop humans from living there?" It turns out there is ...

Look at that title. Really, look at that title and use your imagination. There are a million ways to get creative from the title alone. Did...