In the Galapagos Islands, there lives a lonely boy. Well, he’s at least 60, so we can’t really call him a boy. He’s lonely not for want of trying on the part of his neighbours. Many girls have been offered to him, but he’s refused all of them. That is, until now. Possibly.
Lonesome George, believed

The Courier Mail today has an article entitled Ewe big guts. A reticulated python in Kuala Lumpur evidently ate a pregnant ewe, much to the excitement of onlookers.
I was interviewed this afternoon on ABC radio by Richard Fidler, who wanted to know a bit more about python eating habits. Unfortunately I forgot to say the

On Monday, the world was shocked to hear that crocodile hunter Steve Irwin had been fatally wounded by a stingray while he was snorkeling off north Queensland. News web sites ground to a halt within an hour or so of the first reports being made public. Steve’s own web site was also unreachable as people

I got a call yesterday from a woman in Fig Tree Pocket who had a carpet snake in her pool filter inlet. The snake had been there for about a week. I went around to have a look, expecting the snake to be sick or injured. But the snake was fine, and as soon as

I’m back from Idalia National Park. We were meant to leave early on Saturday morning and get back to Brisbane late Saturday night, but it rained on Friday night so the 70 kms of dirt roads leading out of the park were impassable. So we ended up leaving mid morning on Sunday and getting back

Day 2 in Brazil was shaping up to be a big one. Alecia and I got up at 6:30, had breakfast, and headed back to the Butantan institute. We met Rafael at his office and we all headed down to the venom production facilities. Silvia Candoss took us around the snake rooms. I’ve never seen

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