Lizards
Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination In Reptiles
By Josh Hall
In the 1960s, Madeline Charnier started incubating eggs of the African Rainbow Agama (Agama agama) at different temperatures in her lab at the University of Dakar, Senegal. She noticed the sex ratio...
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The Collared Tree Runner: The Jewel of the Amazon, Plica plica in the Home Terrarium
By Jeremy Carroll
If you take a walk in the rainforest of the Amazon for any given period of time while surveying the trees around you, you may find a jewel of the forest...
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by Meeker Reptiles
Description
Members of the genus Strophurus are endemic to Australia and found throughout the continent with exception of mesic areas along the eastern coast and Tasmania. With 20 recognized species, this is the...
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by Kai Kolodziej
I guess many of us have seen flying reptiles in films and movies, and I am not talking about the (sadly fictional) massive fire breathing dragons in Game of Thrones or similar...
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The Yellow-Throated Plated Lizards
By Paul Donovan
The family Gerrhosauridae encompasses six known genera. Four of these occur in sub-Saharan Africa, and make up the subfamily Gerrhosaurinae:
Angolosaurus (one species- Angolosaurus skoogi)Cordylosaurus (one species- Cordylosaurus subtessellatus) Gerrhosaurus (six species - Gerrhosaurus...
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Eublepharis hardwickii – The East Indian Leopard Gecko
By Johannes Knierer
"I wish my baby Leopard Gecko would keep its banded pattern into adulthood" - a thought that has probably crossed the minds of many Leopard Gecko keepers over the years. What if I...
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By Paul Donovan
They say big is beautiful. And you can’t get much bigger than the Nile monitor, Varanus niloticus. Distributed throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa, this is the largest lizard found on the African...
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Getting Medical with Monitor Lizards
By Dr. Lenard M Hughes
I have been asked to write a series of articles about the research I am doing with a wide range of reptiles. I established a non-profit corporation, Reptile Kingdom Inc,...
