It looks like those scales evolved to provide an easy grip for handlers, but let me tell you, looks can deceive.

I … I am no longer certain how pupils work.

If you’re not careful and drop one, it can form a little snakepile.

Symptoms from a green mamba bite include local pain and swelling, local necrosis, ataxia, headache, drowsiness, difficulty breathing, vertigo, hypotension, diarrhea, dizziness, and paralysis and death.

Symptoms from influenza include fever and chills, cough, nasal congestion, runny nose, sneezing, sore throat, hoarseness, ear pressure, earache, muscle aches, fatigue, headache, irritated eyes, flushed skin, petechial rash, diarrhea, vomiting, abdominal pain, and death.

You can get a shot to reduce the impact of one of these and, as a bonus, it also protects those around you.

Gonna bet that, until today, you hardly spent any time thinking about snake lips

Nike and Adidas are having difficulty breaking into the banded iguana market.

Another fun use of the wide angle macro lens.

According to Reptiles Magazine: “Breeding is not as violent as with many chelonian species, but it is as ardent as with any turtle.”

Going to have replace “____ like bunnies” with “turtles” from now on.

Emerald monitor checking out the wide angle macro lens that lets me pretend to be in a BBC documentary.