In a few days I’m heading off on a South American adventure. I’m spending a couple of days in Dallas, Texas visiting my sister and looking for rattlesnakes, then four weeks in South America wrangling anacondas and caimen*, and coming home with a few days in New Zealand hunting tuatara. If I can find net

So. PhDs. I came up with a cool topic last September (I guess my supervisor contributed a bit too). I was going to look at how venom composition changes in brown tree snakes as they get older. They’re a fairly common species along the east coast of Australia, so getting sufficient numbers of them for

I found a Burton’s legless lizard (Lialis burtonis) today. It was sunning itself on a gravel path in a park in Springwood. I photographed it.

Burton’s legless lizard (Lialis burtonis)

Update:
I don’t keep any lizards, legless or otherwise, as pets. If you’re after a legless lizard as a pet, have a look at this listing of reptiles