Burrowin’ lizards, Batman!

by Greg Mayer       (Update below) Lizards are far and away the most species-rich group of living reptiles, with over 7000 species. One of the first things you learn if you’re a little boy interested in such creatures is that snakes are lizards. One of the other things you learn is that snakes […]

That lizard was delicious– what kind was it?

by Greg Mayer That’s more or the less the question Ngo Van Tri, a Vietnamese herpetologist, must have asked himself after having a meal like that shown below, which surely rivals anything Jerry’s had in Colombia. Tri contacted Lee Grismer of La Sierra University and his son Jesse Grismer, a graduate student at Villanova University, […]