Animals
Smooth Earth Snake
Smooth earth snakes are tiny predators that lurk in gardens, under rocks and debris, and in the leaf litter of…
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Orange Dream Ball Python
The orange dream ball python is a popular color morph that started as a mutation. These snakes have bright orange…
Articles
These are the 5 Largest Animals in Texas and Where You’ll Find Them
Texas is second only to Alaska in square miles and is known for the wide range of wildlife that calls…
Animals
Banana Cinnamon Ball Python
Banana cinnamon ball pythons are nonvenomous constrictors and beautiful examples of great pet snakes. One of the hundreds of different…
Animals
Desert Ghost Ball Python
Desert ghost ball pythons are beautiful, but when bred to other ball python morphs, they make everything even more beautiful.…
Animals
Freeway Ball Python
Freeway ball pythons are nonvenomous constrictors that are captive-bred as pets. Ball pythons are native to Africa and became popular…
Animals
Sunset Ball Python
The sunset ball python is covered in rust and burnt-orange colors. The first individual was found in Africa as a…
Blog
6 Edible Weeds: How To Identify and Use Them
Chickweed, dandelion, and mustard may seem like noxious weeds in your garden, but did you know that they — and…
Animals
Rough Earth Snake
This nonvenomous snake is small and slender; it prefers staying hidden under the leaf litter, rocks, and compost piles, where…
Reviews
The Best Books About Snakes Around the World
Snakes have a bad reputation in many parts of the world. Something about their legless slithering is more than a…
Blog
Egyptian Asp vs. Egyptian Cobra: What You Need to Know
Many animals have several common names, a fact that causes endless amounts of confusion. Take the cottonmouth and water moccasin…
Blog
How To Draw A Wolf in 8 Easy Steps
Learning how to draw a wolf takes patience. Wolves are intense and possess a high level of intelligence that most…
Blog
How To Draw Different Animals, Plants, and More
Learning how to draw animals, plants, and anything else you see may look impossible, but it’s nothing more than a…
Blog
How To Draw A Turkey in 6 Easy Steps
While I love kids’ turkey crafts and art projects, I decided that, rather than contribute to the copious number of…
Animals
Yellow Belly Ball Python
“Yellow belly ball pythons started as an ‘odd-looking’ normal ball python that Amir Soleymani purchased at a reptile show in…
Animals
Albino (Amelanistic) Corn Snake
Albino corn snakes are a color morph of corn snakes with all the dark colors missing. The first genetic color…
Animals
De Kay’s Brown Snake
De Kay’s brown snake is widespread across the eastern half of North America and Central America. It’s nonvenomous and generally…
Animals
Rim Rock Crowned Snake
Rim rock crowned snakes are endemic to a tiny area of southeastern Florida, and scientists know very little about how…
Blog
North America’s Rarest Snake Discovered in Florida After Fatal Battle with Centipede
We rarely find a snake that’s died after biting off more than it can chew. Typically, when a snake discovers…
Blog
Chihuahuan Desert
The Chihuahuan desert is the largest in North America and, it’s the most biologically diverse desert in the Western Hemisphere.…
Blog
How to Draw a Butterfly in 8 Easy Steps
Butterflies are surprisingly complex. At a distance, they look like pretty wings attached to a little body. Then, there are…
Animals
Lavender Albino Ball Python
Lavender albino ball pythons carry a recessive gene that eliminates all the dark colors from their patterns and gives them…
Animals
Bird Snake
Bird snakes in the Thelotornis genus are native to Africa and are one of the few highly venomous colubrids. The…
Blog
How To Draw A Horse in 6 Easy Steps
The hardest part about drawing a horse is getting the proportions right. I broke down the first step in this…
Animals
Tree Viper (Bamboo Viper)
Tree vipers are venomous pit vipers that live in Southeast Asia including southern China, Northeast India, Nepal, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam,…
Blog
Discovered in the Deep: The Snail with Iron Armor
The ocean’s depths have always fascinated humanity. Stories of giant creatures that come up and attack ships have circulated for…
Blog
How to Draw a Dog In 7 Easy Steps
I love the various expressions that dogs show. They can go from silly to laser-focused in no time flat. You…
Blog
How To Draw A Cat in 7 Easy Steps
Cats are their own creatures, aren’t they? You can’t really shape their behavior the way you can a dog. They…
Animals
Tentacled Snake
Tentacled snakes are unique aquatic snakes that live in Peninsular Southeast Asia in Cambodia, Vietnam, and Thailand. These small snakes…
Animals
Emerald Tree Boa
Emerald tree boas are beautiful nonvenomous boas that live in tropical rainforests in South America. They are native to the…
Animals
Eastern Hognose Snake
Eastern hognose snakes eat toads and frogs and are immune to the skin toxins toads excrete. The eastern hognose is…
Snake
Discover the Beautiful Pet Snake That Costs More Than a Purebred Horse
Snakes are popular pets — their needs are simple and few. Once you get their habitat set up properly, they’re…
Animals
Spiny bush viper
Spiny bush vipers look like real-life dragons. Don’t let the pretty face fool you; this snake is highly venomous and,…
Animals
Indian python
Indian pythons are slow-moving, relatively docile, giant snakes. These snakes are native to the Indian subcontinent and several surrounding countries.…
Animals
Olive python
The olive python is Australia’s third longest snake; only the Oenpelli python and amethystine python are longer. This very long…
Animals
Viper Boa
Dubbed the “lazy snake” by locals, the viper boa is slow-moving, even by boa standards. These nonvenomous constrictors are nocturnal…
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Viperfish
The viperfish is a highly specialized deep-sea predator and is found all over the world’s oceans. Most of these creepy-looking…
Animals
Savu Python
The Savu python is one of the smallest pythons in the world and lives on a 60-square-mile island. If this…
Animals
Amazon Tree Boa
Amazon tree boas are widely kept as pets, but surprisingly little is known about them in the wild. This slender…
Animals
Timor python
The Timor python is the closest relative to the reticulated python and is a dwarf species. This shy and elusive…
Blog
Can Dogs Eat Toads Safely, or Are They Poisonous? What to Know
Dogs do things that we humans don’t understand. They roll in our clean laundry, find something rotten and eat it,…
Animals
Pit Viper
Pit vipers snakes are common in the Americas and many parts of Asia; they are among the most highly evolved…
Animals
Reticulated python
The reticulated python is the world’s longest snake and is a nonvenomous constrictor native to Southeast and South Asia. These…
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Saw-scaled Viper
Saw-scaled vipers are highly venomous snakes that are endemic to most of Asia and India. These small vipers only reach…
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Viper
Vipers are a large subfamily of venomous snakes in the Viperidae family of the class Reptilia. They inhabit most of…
Animals
Jungle Carpet Python
Jungle carpet pythons are a subspecies of nonvenomous carpet pythons found in Australia. These snakes are arboreal; they don’t come…
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Coastal Carpet Python
The Coastal carpet python, a subspecies of carpet python, is widespread from the northern tip of Queensland at Cape York…
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Diamond Python
The diamond python is a subspecies of carpet python that occurs in southeastern Australia near the coast. While its native…
Animals
Amethystine Python (Scrub Python)
The amethystine python is one of the six biggest snakes in the world when measured by weight or length. Found…
Animals
Boelen’s python
Boelen’s python is a native of New Guinea that is still a bit of a mystery to science. This species…