Carpet Viper
Hear the hiss, heed the saw
Conservation Threats
Infrastructure
Roads, dams, power lines, and buildings causing mortality or habitat fragmentation
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Infrastructure Animals
Telescopefishes (Giganturids)
Built to see in the abyss
Blanket Octopus
The open-ocean octopus with a living cape
Texas Spiny Lizard
Spiky scales, Texas trails.
Unau (Linnaeus's Two-Toed Sloth)
Two claws, night life, rainforest slow
Natterjack
The stripe-backed toad that runs and roars
Lazarus Lizard
The wall lizard that came back
Copperhead
Hourglass bands, hidden in plain sight
Agama Lizard
Colorful rock sentinels of Africa
Western Hognose Snake
The prairie snake that plays dead best
King Vulture
Color-crowned cleaner of the rainforest
Eastern Indigo Snake
Iridescent hunter of the longleaf
Timber Rattlesnake (Canebrake Rattlesnake)
The forest rattler: warn first, strike last
Bearded Vulture
The Bone-Breaking Mountain Vulture
Brown Snake
Australia's swift, serious brown snakes
Texas Indigo Snake
South Texas' diurnal snake hunter
Kirtland's Snake
Red-bellied ghost of wet prairies
Black Mamba
Black mouth. Cool head. Keep distance.
Green Mamba
Mambas: the canopy's quick-strike elapids
Egyptian Cobra (Egyptian Asp)
Hood up: the classic "asp" of history
Queen Snake
Seven stripes, one stream specialist
Coachwhip Snake
Built for speed. No venom required.
Carpet Python
Australia's patterned backyard constrictor
Grass Snake
The wetland snake that plays dead