Famous Reptiles

Social media platforms can be a great space to find all sorts of bizarre, fascinating, or truly shocking things. In a new instance, a post about a snake with unusual markings on its body has gone viral. These marks look like smiley face emojis and hence it is being called the snake that can 'smile' back at you three times. ALSO READ | Couple Goals! Deepika Padukone Twerking With Ranveer Singh Is The Cutest Thing You Will See Today Designer snake breeder Justin Kobylka accidentally created this snake when he was actually trying to get a bright golden yellow and white color combination for it. The reptile ended up having markings on its body that look just like smiley face emoji. Recently, the breeder revealed that the designer reptile was sold for $6,000. <blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/reel/CKHrqosDBiC/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" data-in...

'Show Me Snakes' is making a stop in the Quad Cities this weekend on Sunday, June 27th. You can catch them in Davenport from 10 am to 3 pm. The whole family is welcomed to come out for a great day at the reptile show. Get ready to learn and explore with experts. At the end of the day, you may go home with a new pet too! You'll have the opportunity to learn about reptiles and share your passion with this awesome team. You can also get your quality reptile feeders and supplies here while seeing a variety of different reptiles. The Show Me Reptile & Exotics Show is one of the largest shows in the region. The best part is that this is a safe and family-friendly event geared to educate and introduce people to reptiles and exotics. Show Me Snakes' story is a great one too, Show Me Snakes first show was held in October of 2015 at the District 9 Machinist Hall in Bridgeton, Missouri. This "bad idea" snowballed from that living room, to a ...

When a team of researchers set out to survey a patch of jungle in the Indonesian part of Borneo one May morning in 2008, they had no idea that they'd find the "holy grail of herpetology" on their lunchbreak. While sitting next to a creek, one of the Indonesian team members spotted a brownish-yellow lizard, about a foot long with a face like a cartoon dinosaur and pronounced scales, resembling a mini-alligator. It was an earless monitor lizard, the first such specimen known to be found in the wild in decades. News of the rediscovery, announced in a 2012 paper, spread quickly among reptile enthusiasts. Indonesia and Malaysia have strictly protected earless monitor lizards for decades, meaning they're banned from collection or trade. Neither country has legally sanctioned their export, but the 2012 paper suddenly ignited interest in the species among collectors, who were willing to pay thousands of dollars for a single lizard. The authors inadvertently provided jus...

Stompewiz – Last weekend a camel walked the animal ambulance from Stompewig to The Hague Animal Hospital. Camel Einstein walks across the Netherlands with his owner, Tamar Vulcanier . Ninook Vermeer, director of the Animal Hospital Foundation and Ambulance Service The Hague and surroundings, walked in with them. Fortunately, a 1-year-old male camel named Einstein was taken unharmed. He came to the animal hospital in perfect health and was a guest there for a while. Tamar Vulcanier (34) is a professional adventurer. 365 days a year, it is commonly found in rough natural areas around the world. She travels with her bicycle, cattle, horse or a deer or camel to the most remote parts of the world. He is currently traveling with the camel Einstein through the Netherlands to promote the book 'Full Time Adventurer'. He has cycled a total of 12,000 kilometers in recent years, learned to hunt with eagles while traveling with his horse, camel and dog in Mongolia, walked do...

KATY MAGAZINE NEWS June 5, 2021 By Natalie Cook Clark Katy weather forecasts more rain after days of downpours leaving many residents concerned about more than rising water, but what else often is brought out with it. People need to be cautious, not alarmed by the Katy's slithery residents. Know when to walk away and when to call for help when you encounter one of these snakes. DeKays Brown snake (Storeria Dekayi) non venomous species. Photo courtesy of Tomball/Cypress/Katy Texas Snake ID Heavy Rains Bring Snakes Out Making Encounters More Likely Katy residents are long use to living amongst snakes, but this rain makes close encounters of a more frequent nature much more likely. One Katy Resident Found Not Two Jeremy Hopkins in Elyson found not one but two Diamondback water snakes at his front door. "I was actually at home when I saw them," says Jeremy Hopkins. "I went out to pick up a pa...

When a team of researchers set out to survey a patch of jungle in the Indonesian part of Borneo one May morning in 2008, they had no idea that they'd find the "holy grail of herpetology" on their lunchbreak. While sitting next to a creek, one of the Indonesian team members spotted a brownish-yellow lizard, about a foot long with a face like a cartoon dinosaur and pronounced scales, resembling a mini-alligator. It was an earless monitor lizard, the first such specimen known to be found in the wild in decades. News of the rediscovery, announced in a 2012 paper, spread quickly among reptile enthusiasts. Indonesia and Malaysia have strictly protected earless monitor lizards for decades, meaning they're banned from collection or trade. Neither country has legally sanctioned their export, but the 2012 paper suddenly ignited interest in the species among collectors, who were willing to pay thousands of dollars for a single lizard. The authors inadvertently provided jus...

Here's all you need to know about planning a trip to Yankari Game Reserve. Contact number: (069) 43-656 Things to take with you: A camera, cash, sunglasses, drinking water, comfortable hiking shoes, your overnight kit and a safari kit. Yankari Game Reserve is a large wildlife park located in the south-central part of Bauchi State, Nigeria. It covers an area of about 2,244 square kilometres (866 sq mi) and is home to several natural warm water springs, as well as a wide variety of flora and fauna. The reserve is also a vast village to animals such as primates, waterbucks, bushbucks, oribi, crocodiles, hippopotamus, roan gazelle, wild ox and countless species of monkeys. When is the best time to visit? The best time to have the full experience of Yankari is during the dry season with warmer temperature, typically between March and April. This allows you to see a wider range of animals during the safari. How t...

- Advertisement - The Ilha da Queimada Grande, also known as 'Snake island', is one of the world's deadliest places off the coast of Brazil in the Atlantic Ocean. The island is considered to be the place of an estimated 5,00,00 lakh snakes where no population of the homo sapiens.  The island has an area of around 106 hectares and consists of a temperate climate. It is believed that the island was a way to the mainland, and the snakes became trapped on the island when sea level rose and covered up the island.  A picture of snake island - Advertisement - The history behind the name of the island –  Advertisement - Advertisement - Deforestation is considered to be the origin behind the island's name – Ilha da Queimada Grande as the island is partially covered with rainforest and slightly bare rock and cleared grassy areas as a consequence of deforestation.  'Queimada' in Portuguese, stands for 'burnt as earlier when th...

The Northern Copperhead is the most widespread and common of Virginia's three venomous snakes. Copperheads are found in wooded habitats throughout the state, including rural, suburban, and even some urban areas. They are generally calm-natured animals that lie quietly, depending on their excellent camouflage to escape detection. However they will strike if accidently stepped on or otherwise threatened. Bites can be serious if venom is actually injected, causing much pain and swelling. However, human fatalities are extremely rare. If you find a copperhead, leave it alone. Some bites occur when people try to kill or move the snake. Photo courtesy of the Virginia Herpetological Society By Roslyn Ryan / Editor As summer approaches and backyard BBQ season officially kicks off, it doesn't take much to get most of us out of the house and into the great outdoors. Unfortunately, there is at least one thing that will send some of us running right back ...

It was Halloween and the discussion had inevitably turned to death – and flesh-eating zombies. I had just finished lunch at a "research away day" when I got caught up in a conversation about carrion beetles with a new colleague of mine, Sheena Cotter. The carrion beetles (also known as burying beetles or sexton beetles), which Sheena researches, are masters of death: they breed in the dead carcass of a mouse or a bird and, together with their larval brood, reduce it to bones and skin in a very short time. Then, a new cohort of beetles disperse. I confess the thought of dead corpses stuffed with creepy crawlies was initially repellent to me (especially just after lunch) but back then I really didn't know much about the incredible biology of these beetles. Over the next few months my feelings changed. I study soil. Most people, including fellow biologists, basically see soil as a place of death – full of dead plants and animals, which eventually decompose into pieces. B...