They say the green water snake in Botswana is harmless but I was still creeped out! Photographed in the Chobe river in Botswana!

#snake #watersnake #greensnake #snakes #africa #botswana #chobe #river #aquatic #reptile #reflections #nature #curving #ripples #AYearForArt #buyIntoArt #giftideas #wallart #artforsale @joancarroll

https://joan-carroll.pixels.com/featured/green-water-snake-botswana-joan-carroll.html

Lace Monitor in the backyard this afternoon after I put an egg on the offering rock this morning. (note the lack of egg in these photos).

(egg wasn't entirely up to human consumption, as it floated when doing the float test).

today's confusing taxonomic terms:

Saturnaliidae , a clade of early branching saurpodomorph dinosaurs
Saturnalidae , a clade of radiolarians
Saturniidae , a clade of moths

#dinosaurs
#radiolarians
#moths
#insects
#arthropod
#protists
#reptile

Goanna Sploot

Met this handsome fellow on our walk this afternoon.

It's a Lace Monitor (colloquially also known as a Goanna).

I'm sure I read about a legless rhynchocephalian. I even think I saw a picture of a fossil. But I can't recall what it is named. Anyone know anything about it?

#Rhynchocephalia
#tuatara
#Sphenodon
#lizard
#notLizard
#legLess
#reptile
#fossil

The Southeast Asian Box #Turtle is rare and disappearing #reptile, they're #endangered due to #palmoil deforestation in #India #Indonesia and the #pet trade. Fight for them and #BoycottPalmOil ️ #Boycott4Wildlife

http://palmoildetectives.com/2021/02/05/southeast-asian-box-turtle-cuora-amboinensis/

Coming soon: The Year of the Snake

Wall Art Prints: https://matthias-hauser.pixels.com/featured/the-snake-and-the-lotus-serene-whispers-matthias-hauser.html

Komodo dragon
Zoo Miami

The Year of the Snake - coming soon Cosmic Serpent, Wall Art Prints: https://matthias-hauser.pixels.com/featured/cosmic-serpent-guardian-of-the-stars-matthias-hauser.html

Removed this large Fire Salamander from the well.

It either lived there (the well is mostly dry due to a leak) or it got syphoned into it with today's heavy #rain. It was resting on top of the only bit of rock that stood above the water surface.

Any advice on how/where to release this fella? I know they need access to water so I might need to find a stream or pond of sorts in the vicinity.

Commission

For OhHeyTDK @ Telegram! Thank you~

Solitary and shy #reptile the Elongated #Tortoise shuffles in the forest floor of #India #Malaysia #Vietnam. They're critically #endangered by #palmoil and illegal #poaching Fight for them #BoycottPalmOil ️ #Boycott4Wildlife

http://palmoildetectives.com/2021/01/25/elongated-tortoise-indotestudo-elongata/

Did a day trip to Bungendore yesterday (just outside the ACT - Australian Capital Territory, for the non-locals).

Found a cool lizard (most likely a Cunningham's Skink).

A low key photo of a caiman in a river in the Pantanal of Brazil, with eyes and snout just emerging above the survace of the water. See more here: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/caiman-pantanal-brazil-low-key-2-joan-carroll.html

#caiman #alligator #pantanal #brazil #wildlife #wildlifephotography #reptile #submerged #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #AYearForArt #buyIntoArt #PhotographyCommunity #giftideas #wallart #artforsale @joancarroll

Triassic #reptile with unusual jaws named as a new species
https://phys.org/news/2024-12-triassic-reptile-unusual-jaws-species.html

A new procolophonid with complex dentition from the Late #Triassic of southwest England https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.1605

"#Threordatoth chasmatos was one of the last survivors of the #procolophonids, a group of #lizard-like #animals that were once widespread during the Triassic."