On Friday, you stabbed a rattlesnake eight times on a nature preserve. You used the stake holding a sign asking you to avoid disturbing th...

I have two jobs, and both of them involve rattlesnakes. Sometimes I chuckle at how odd my career choice is. I didn’t grow up chasing s...

The nursery rhyme What Are Little Boys Made Of? from the 19th century, by an unknown author, is probably pretty familiar to most of us. T...

Yesterday my colleague Dr. Charley Knight posted a photo of a "zombie" lizard to Twitter, which I retweeted, then posted to Facebo...

The creative projects that mark the end of my herpetology class each spring bring me a lot of joy. They are creative, informative, artistic,...

It's the end of spring quarter here at Cal Poly, which means that my herpetology students have turned in their projects. Instead of...

Every time I teach Herpetology, I ask the students to make a haiku on their final exam that encompasses something they've learn...