Brown-throated Three Toed Sloth from Costa Rica back in November. I’ve rarely seen them be more than brown blob up in binocular range, so some activity (slowly of course) was nice.

Brown-throated Three Toed Sloth from Costa Rica back in November. I’ve rarely seen them be more than brown blob up in binocular range, so some activity (slowly of course) was nice.

Some of the many, many Zebra-tailed Lizards from a famous beach at the southern tip of Baja California.




A Baja Ratsnake we found late at night in Baja California Sur, showing some iridescence in the camera flash.


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.

Translucent cave millipedes were everywhere as we descended deep into a Slovenian cave, searching for an Olm.

A large Mexican Pygmy Rattlesnake from southern Mexico several years ago.

A Rosy Boa from coastal Baja California Norte. These snakes are common in the steep boulder hillsides with blue-green sea in the distance.

A very impressive animal – an adult Yellow-tailed Cribo found near camp in Peru.

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.
