Some of the many, many Zebra-tailed Lizards from a famous beach at the southern tip of Baja California.
Zebra-tailed Lizards of Baja California
Category: International
Neotropical Green Anole, Guatemala in 2023
Baja Ratsnake
A Baja Ratsnake we found late at night in Baja California Sur, showing some iridescence in the camera flash.
Malabar Pitviper
A Malabar Pitviper from southern India a couple of years ago on a wet night in the Western Ghats. After seeing a few of them, the convergent similarities in form and behavior with new world vipers, like the eyelash vipers, is amazing.
Slovenian Cave Millipedes
Translucent cave millipedes were everywhere as we descended deep into a Slovenian cave, searching for an Olm.
Mexican Pygmy Rattlesnake
A large Mexican Pygmy Rattlesnake from southern Mexico several years ago.
Rosy Boa from Baja California
A Rosy Boa from coastal Baja California Norte. These snakes are common in the steep boulder hillsides with blue-green sea in the distance.
Yellow-tailed Cribo
A very impressive animal – an adult Yellow-tailed Cribo found near camp in Peru.
Lowland Striped Blindsnake
A Lowland Striped Blindsnake from Guatemala. It’s a tiny, entirely harmless invertebrate specialist that doesn’t spend much time on the surface, so we were lucky to see one. Compared to the unicolor blindsnakes (Rena sp.) from the U.S., this one having some pattern and a bright yellow tail spine was very interesting. The thing they have in common with them though: they’re about impossible to photograph, and they smell like hell.
Blunt Headed Tree Snake Eating A Lizard
Crossing a metal bridge on a trail through the Costa Rican rainforest, we were stopped by the sight of a Blunt-headed Tree Snake in the latter stages of eating a small lizard. The lizard was still trying to escape, but the snake was not going to lose this one. These tree snakes, with their huge eyes and comically thin bodies, seem kind of goofy, so it was cool to see one doing what they do, and know that for as silly as they seem to be, to a sleeping anole it is a pretty terrifying animal.
